Radiologic Diagnosis of Benign Esophageal Strictures: A Pattern Approach

Radiographics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 897-909

  Luedtke, Pia ^a   Levine, Marc S ^a   Rubesin, Stephen E ^a   Weinstein, Donald S ^b   Laufer, Igor ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Esophagus, 71.123, 71.744; Esophagus, stenosis or obstruction, 71.744

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALENDRONIC ACID; CAUSTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; QUINIDINE; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; BARIUM SULFATE;

BARIUM ENEMA; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; BEHCET DISEASE; BENIGN TUMOR; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOUBLE CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; DYSPHAGIA; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; ENDOSCOPY; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA DYSTROPHICA; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS DIVERTICULOSIS; ESOPHAGUS STENOSIS; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HIATUS HERNIA; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; REVIEW; SCLERODERMA; SKIN DISEASE; STOMACH INTUBATION; ZOLLINGER ELLISON SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

BARIUM SULFATE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ESOPHAGEAL STENOSIS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; HUMANS;

EID: 0041842650     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.234025717     Document Type: Review

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