81.   Patients with little or no residual intraluminal tumour and a good lumen were not given a further follow up appointment.

82.   He is alive and under follow up surgery was not deemed appropriate due to his generally weak condition.

83.   The problem of the need for frequent follow up procedures is, however, a major one as this is invonvenient and sometimes distressing for the patient.

84.   Patients in each of the three groups were comparable with respect to age and length of follow up.

85.   In this series we feel that no carcinoma was missed by barium enema in view of the follow up exceeding four years.

86.   We detected residual peptic lesions in the duodenal bulb of four group II patients at the final follow up examination.

87.   A colonic mucosal biopsy obtained at endoscopic follow up from a non-inflammatory bowel disease patient with a colonic polyp was also positive for M paratuberculosis.

88.   After adequate initial dilatation, patients were instructed to attend for follow up at six to eight week intervals, or earlier in case of a recurrence of dysphagia.

89.   Only those patients who completed at least six months of follow up after adequate initial dilatation are included in the analysis of the long term results.

90.   The dysphagia recurrence rate during follow up was higher in the corrosive than in the peptic stricture group.