Dysphagia
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Web Resources for Dysphagia
Relevant Clinical Literature
UK Guidance
Other Wikis
Medpedia on Dysphagia (Less technical, good quality control)
Wikipedia on Dysphagia (Less technical, ? quality control)
Difficulty swallowing. Not to be confused with Dysphasia. Pain on swallowing is odynophagia.
When taking a history it is useful to know:
- Time scale: Sudden/progressive; days/months?
- Solids/liquids or both?
- Presence/absence of neurological problems
- Weight loss
- Systemic features
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Causes/Differential diagnosis
Outside the wall
- Mediastinal lymphadenopathy
- left atrial hypertrophy
- goitre
In the wall
- Tumour
- Benign
- lipoma
- leiomyoma
- Malignant
- adenocarcinoma
- squamous cell carcinoma
- Benign
- Neurological
- myasthenia gravis
- stroke
- infections
- Neuromuscular
- connective tissue disease
Intraluminal
- foreign body
- Plummer-Vinson syndrome
