Congenital esophageal stenosis: a rare case of dysphagia

Congenital esophageal stenosis (CES) is a rare anomaly, resulting from incomplete separation of the respiratory tract from the primitive foregut at the 25th day of life. First clinical signs are abnormalities of the swallowing mechanism caused by the intrinsic narrowing of the esophagus. Diagnosis i...

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Main Author: Serrão, E (author)
Other Authors: Santos, A (author), Gaivão, A (author), Tavares, A (author), Ferreira, S (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.10/646
Country:Portugal
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