DYSPHAGIA OF TRANSITORY TYPE PRODUCED BY HYPERTROPHIC SPURS ON CERVICAL VERTEBRAE

1 October 1954

journal article
research article
Published by American College of Physicians in Annals of Internal Medicine

Vol. 41 (4) , 823-828
https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-41-4-823

Abstract

Dysphagia may result from deformity of the esophagus by protruding spurs of cervical hypertrophic arthritis of the spine. This lesion is easily demonstrated by barium swallowed with the cervical spine slightly extended. The lesion is comparatively benign, and symptoms are believed by reassurance and sedation.

Keywords

DEGLUTITION DISORDERS
CERVICAL VERTEBRA
CERVICAL SPINE

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Dysphagia Produced by a Contractile Ring in the Lower Esophagus
Gastroenterology, 1953
A Simple Technique for Simultaneous Screening and Radiography
Acta Radiologica, 1952