Œsophageal Spasm

Lipiodol in the diagnosis of congenital œsophageal atresia.

Oesophageal Spasm

Osgood (1889) is generally credited with the introduction of the term " diffuse spasm " of the oesophagus. However, though Moersch and Camp (1934) recorded a classical description of the clinical and radiological features of the disease it attracted little interest until the introduction of oesophageal motility studies in the 1950s. Since then a characteristic motility pattern has been describe...

Traumatic Arterial Spasm

That the arteries undergo spasmodic contraction, when subjected to trauma or concussional violence, is now a well-recognized fact. Called by the French surgeons Stupeui Arterialleand by the German surgeons ' Kroh's Arterial Spasm', the phenomenon was described by Makins (1919) towards the end ot World War I. During World War II, several remarkable instances of the condition were cited from dive...

Diffuse Esophageal Spasm

An 82-year-old man was admitted to our hospital due to dysphagia. Barium esophagography showed the esophagus to have a corkscrew appearance (Picture 1). Esophagogastroduodenoscopy also showed similar findings (Picture 2). Given these typical imaging findings, he was diagnosed with diffuse esophageal spasm (DES), although esophageal manometry for a definite diagnosis could not be performed due t...

Palmaris brevis spasm syndrome.

Palmaris brevis spasm syndrome is a rare and benign condition of localised muscular hyperactivity. In five men, the hypothenar eminence underwent spontaneous, irregular, tonic contractions of the palmaris brevis muscle. An EMG showed spontaneous high frequency discharges of normal motor units, without evidence of neuropathy or of nerve compression. This syndrome resembles other restricted muscl...