The adult human esophagus is an 18- to 25-cm long muscular tube that has cervical, thoracic, and abdominal parts. The esophagus wall is composed of striated muscle in the upper part, smooth muscle ...

Jasmin was diagnosed with cervical adenocarcinoma at age 31. At the time, she was a single mother of three: Anton, nine years ...

Gastroesophageal reflux arises from increased exposure and/or sensitivity of the esophageal mucosa to gastric contents, and affects 5-40 percent of the population. Esophageal ultrasound studies in ...

Roentgenograms (Fig. 1) disclosed a marked hypertrophic spurring at the junction of the 3d and 4th cervical vertebras, but no other abnormality of the esophagus could be demonstrated.

Esophageal cancer is emerging as an increasingly serious health concern in Rwanda, with new cases persistently rising over the past five years. According to data from the Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC ...

Usually an incidental finding at endoscopy, HGM typically presents as a pink, mucosal patch variable in size (from a few millimeters to being circumferential) in the upper esophagus, immediately ...

A team led by Dr. Christian Righini from the University Medical Center of Grenoble reports a case of cervical cellulitis and mediastinitis following esophageal perforation with chicken bone.

Franklin and Shipman 7 reported 2 cases of carcinoma of the cervical esophagus in which throat symptoms led to erroneous diagnoses. The first patient was thought to have angioneurotic edema, which ...

Motor Disorders of the Oral Cavity, Pharynx, and Cervical Esophagus Muscles of the oral cavity, pharynx, and cervical esophagus are of the striated variety. These disorders may manifest as oral ...

However, perforation can occur in the intraabdominal esophagus or cervical esophagus, leading to epigastric pain or neck pain instead of retrosternal chest pain, respectively.

4572 Background: The treatment of cervical squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is discussed controversial. A limited resection of the cervical esophagus and reconstruction with a free jejenunal graft ...

At endoscopy, a small sliding-type hiatal hernia and 2 nonconfluent mucosal breaks (greater than 5 mm in length) were identified in the distal esophagus.