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Although achalasia patients are undernourished, studies are scant. We studied: (i) the frequency of malnutrition among these patients and (ii) the effect of pneumatic dilatation (PD) on malnutrition.A total of 70 adult achalasia patients and 70 healthy We report an unusual hepatoid adenocarcinoma in Barrett's esophagus with achalasia, which developed in a 44-year-old Japanese woman. The patient received an esophago-gastrectomy after diagnosis of the tumor and achalasia at the lower esophagus, 4 months before her death due to multiple metastatic
Anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN) are potentially fatal eating disorders which primarily affect adolescent females. Differentiating eating disorders from primary gastrointestinal (GI) disease may be difficult. GI disorders are common in eating disorder patients, symptomatic complaints
OBJECTIVE
To analyze the epidemiological features of patients with esophageal cancer according to the histopathological types: squamous cell carcinoma or adenocarcinoma.
METHODS
A total of 100 patients with esophageal cancer, being 50 squamous cell carcinomas and 50 adenocarcinomas were analyzed for