The authors report the case of a 56-year-old male patient complaining of dysphagia for solids and food impaction, submitted to videofluoroscopic swallowing study that demonstrated the presence of two esophageal diverticula. The videofluoroscopic swallowing study was critical in the identification and diagnosis of the diverticula, an esophageal cause of dysphagia.
Caren Meneghetti Gonçalves; Julia Noschang; Armidio Celeste Bertani da Silva; Renato José Kist de Mello; Sandra Jungblut Schuh; Antonio Carlos Maciel
Radiol Bras 2014;47(1):54-56 - CASE REPORT
Heterotaxy syndrome is defined as an abnormal arrangement of some organs and vessels in association with dysmorphism. The authors describe the case of a patient with heterotaxy syndrome with poliesplenia incidentally diagnosed during imaging evaluation (computed tomography and small bowel barium study) of unrelated pathological condition.
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