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Clinical presentation:
45 year old male who had been working and living abroad in the Far East with a generous expense account, but without family.

The barium-filled oesophagus contains linear sepentine radiolucencies. There is a knot of smaller low densities nearer the lower end of the oesophagus.

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cases that might resemble this pathology

[View large image] Peptic oesophagitis with stricture. (case report) [View large image] Intramural diverticulosis (case report)
[View large image] Monilia (case report) [View large image] Tuberculous oesophagitis (case report)
[View large image] Radiation (case report) [View large image] Carcinoma in existing hiatus hernia. (case report)
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IDM Dec 2006