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- Title
Achalasia mimicking lung abscess.
- Authors
Hsuan-Wei Chen; Ching Tzao; Chih-Feng Chian
- Abstract
The article discusses the case of a 21-year old woman hospitalized due to fever and chest tightness, and presents images of her chest radiograph that showed a cyst with air-fluid level below the carina, a chest computerized tomography where it detected a dilated esophagus with food retention, and a barium swallow study that demonstrated characteristics of achalasia which was confirmed by an esophageal manometric study.
- Subjects
CHEST diseases; ESOPHAGUS diseases; TOMOGRAPHY
- Publication
Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift, 2011, Vol 123, Issue 5/6, p156
- ISSN
0043-5325
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00508-010-1500-4