| Patients are placed under local or general anesthesia and the stricture is dilated using a flexible gastroscope and Savary bougies. |
| In perioperative and gastroenterology settings, nurses can lobby to replace mercury-containing bougies. |
| The use of bougies to remedy dysphagia caused by oesophageal stricture has been a standard treatment for centuries. |
| By the passage of bougies through a bronchoscope a stricture of the bronchus has been relieved in a similar manner. |
| The perpetual use of bougies, either of catgut or of caoutchouc. |
| The passage of oesophageal bougies or the stomach-tube into the oesophagus will often reveal the point of stricture. |
