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Esophagus: Functional/Motility Abnormalities

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Abdominal Imaging

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Abstract

While motility disorders of the esophagus are relatively uncommon, patients with dysphagia are common. As patients with esophageal motility disorders almost always have dysphagia, usually liquid dysphagia, any physician encountering a patient with difficulty swallowing must consider dysmotility as a cause.

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  1. Section, Abdominal Imaging, Imaging Institute and Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Hb6/Imaging Institute, 9500 Euclid Ave, 44195, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Mark E. Baker M.D. & David M. Einstein M.D.

  2. Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Steven Shay M.D.

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Baker, M.E., Einstein, D.M., Shay, S. (2013). Esophagus: Functional/Motility Abnormalities. In: Hamm, B., Ros, P.R. (eds) Abdominal Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13327-5_6

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