A Rare Cause of Persistent Dysphagia: Dysphagia Lusoria
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Dysphagia lusoria - a rare cause of prolonged Dysphagia.
A 64-year-old man presented with prolonged history of intermittent dysphagia with sensation of food sticking at his upper chest. Physical examination was unremarkable, and an upper endoscopy did not reveal the underlying cause. On computed tomography scan of thorax, an aberrant right subclavian artery was seen coursing posterior to the esophagus resulting in external compression, which is a typ...
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A76-year-old woman presented with difficulty swallowing solid food and with shortness of breath. Her symptoms had developed over several months. She did not have odynophagia, had not experienced weight loss and did not drink alcohol or smoke. Her physical exam was unremarkable. Barium esophagography showed a posterior oblique indentation of the proximal esophagus slightly above the level of the...
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CLINICAL PRESENTATION A 54-year-old woman, with a history of partial strumectomy due to hyperthyroidism, was referred for evaluation of chronic dysphagia for solids for more than 10 years. In the last few months, she was only fed on a liquid diet and lost approximately 6 kg in weight. Neither reflux symptoms nor thoracic pain were present. Physical examination and screening blood tests were unr...
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Li Y-L, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-220773 Description A middle-aged woman presented with dysphagia and globus sensation. Upper endoscopy was unremarkable and barium swallow revealed persistent, smooth indentation of the posterior aspect of the upper thoracic oesophagus at T4 level, suggesting external compression (figure 1). Subsequent CT thorax demonstrated an aberrant righ...
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loss of 10 kg over the last year. She reported helping the passage of the food bolus through the subcutaneous presternal digestive conduit with her ngers. A thick-paste barium transit study revealed multiple diverticular pouches in the neoesophagus, with retained contrast material inside of them. No other reason for the weight loss was identi ed. As the dysphagia in this case seemed not to be w...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Medical Image Library
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2474-3682
DOI: 10.23937/2474-3682/1510051