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Radiology, Vol 199, 533-536, Copyright © 1996 by Radiological Society of North America

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Esophageal leiomyomatosis

MS Levine, JL Buck, L Pantongrag-Brown, PC Buetow, MA Lowry and LH Sobin
Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.

PURPOSE: To reassess the clinical and radiologic findings in patients with esophageal leiomyomatosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A search of the authors' radiologic archives revealed six cases of esophageal leiomyomatosis in a 22-year period. The clinical findings and radiologic images were reviewed retrospectively. RESULTS: The average age of the patients was 10.8 years (range, 6-18 years). Five patients presented with slowly progressive dysphagia. Barium studies revealed smooth, tapered narrowing of the distal esophagus in five patients and characteristic defects on the superomedial aspect of the gastric fundus abutting the cardia, presumably due to bulging of this thickened mass of muscle into the stomach, in four patients. In two patients, computed tomography (CT) revealed marked thickening of the distal esophageal wall. CONCLUSION: Esophageal leiomyomatosis can be suggested in a pediatric patient with long-standing dysphagia in whom smooth, tapered distal esophageal narrowing is seen at barium study and circumferential esophageal wall thickening is seen at CT.


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