| Theme | Digestive Diseases to Know -- Esophagus | |
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| Title | Esophageal Web and Schatzki's Ring | |
| Publish Date | 1998/04 | |
| Author | Koji Kusakari | First Department of Internal Medicine, St.Marianna University School of Medicine |
| [ Summary ] | The esophageal web and Schatzki's ring are rare among patients with dysphagia disease. The esophageal web at the anterior wall of the cervical portion, which is often accompanied with Plummer-Vinson syndrome, is easy to find by esophagogram, but it's quite difficult to identify the web by endoscopy. Schatzki's ring is characterized by association with a sliding hernia, but the frequency of Schatzki's ring is also quite low in Japan. The esophageal web in the upper portion is thought to be an underlying disease factor for cancer and that in the lower portion is related to a sliding hernia in the genesis of the ring in this portion. One interesting case of the esophageal web being associated with esophageal intramural pseudodiverticulosis was presented. |
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