ESOPHAGITIS

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The esophagus usually is considered immune to the usual diseases that attack other organs of the body. Much has been written concerning carcinoma and stricture of the esophagus, and cardiospasm, but little has been written about the most common disease of the esophagus—esophagitis. In a recent study, we1found the incidence of esophagitis to be 7.02 per cent in 3,032 necropsies performed. Definite symptoms occurred in 10.3 per cent of the 213 cases in which a pathologic diagnosis of esophagitis was made. Although in thirty-two cases (10.3 per cent) there were definite symptoms that suggested esophagitis, a clinical diagnosis was made in only one case. All the information obtained concerning the symptoms of esophagitis was volunteered by the patients. It seems reasonable to suppose that, if the patients had been questioned as a routine with regard to the symptoms of esophagitis, the percentage of patients who had symptoms which

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