title: [Dead-channel-like part of thoracic esophagus: cut-off sign in the upper gastrointestinal tract].
abstract: The colon cutoff sign had been published four decades ago.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  In this retrospective study a new localisation of syndrome seen on plain film esophagography.
  
  
  METHODS
  The syndrome is formal in 32 cases (2.23%) of 1430 patients is described. Touched persons are 76 +/- 9 years old.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The arched inflexion of supradiaphragmatic esophagus related to stage of osteoporosis and incidence of vertebral body fractures besides height of thoracic cavity and kyphosis. Its convexity to abnormality of phrenicoesophageal membrane and hiatus is attributed. The deformity of esophagus occurs 3.75 seven times more often in female than in male patients.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Not provable esophageal autopathies.
authors.affiliation: Szent Ferenc Kórház, Miskolc, Radiológiai Osztály.
authors.forename: Dezsö
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Szántó
authors.forename: Gabriella
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Szücs
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004935:Esophageal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D004947:Esophagus / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012737:Sex Factors; D013909:Thorax