Oesophageal web

Lower oesophageal web.

The purpose of this paper is to present the case of a young adult patient who had suffered since birth from dysphagia. The diagnosis of cardiospasm was made during childhood and the lesion was diagnosed recently, and proved at operation, to be an annular web involving the mucosa and submucosa, situated 3 cm. above the oesophagogastric junction. An attempt will be made to correlate the clinical ...

Dysphagia due to oesophageal web.

An 8 year old boy developed a recurrent sensation of food sticking in his throat during meal times. Barium swallow examination showed an anterior oesophageal web at the level of C5. Symptoms disappeared after pharyngoscopy and dilatation of the web.

Management of a Case of Oesophageal Web

The triad of dysphagia, upper esophageal webs, and iron deficiency anemia is known as PlummerVinson syndrome. Even though the syndrome is very rare nowadays, its recognition is important because it identifies a group of patients at increased risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the upper alimentary tract. This syndrome affects mostly women in their middle ages. This rare disease was relatively co...

Oesophageal perforation for oesophageal stone.

Oesophageal and gastric gongylonemiasis in a donkey

Members of the genus Gongylonema  are nematodes that commonly infect ruminants, particularly sheep and goats. An 11-year-old donkey mare was referred to the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, School of Veterinary Medicine, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, northeastern Iran, with a history of acute colitis. At post-mortem examination, there were several white to pink zigzag tracks in the muco...