title: Acute oesophageal symptoms.
abstract: Acute oesophageal symptoms include acute dysphagia or food bolus impaction (most commonly due to strictures, Schatzki ring and eosinophilic oesophagitis), acute chest pain with odynophagia due to oesophageal infections, motility disorders and acute oesophageal rupture (of which oesophageal intramural haematoma is a subtype). Acute full thickness oesophageal rupture carries a high mortality if not recognised early; the clinical features and conditions with which this may be confused are presented and discussed.
authors.affiliation: University Hospitals of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
authors.forename: S M Noor
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Hossain
authors.affiliation: University Hospitals of Leicester, Leicester, UK john.decaestecker@uhl-tr.nhs.uk.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: de Caestecker
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D004931:Esophageal Achalasia / Q000628:therapy; D004935:Esophageal Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D015154:Esophageal Motility Disorders; D015155:Esophageal Spasm, Diffuse / Q000628:therapy; D006406:Hematoma / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007239:Infections / Q000175:diagnosis; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous
keywords: Food bolus obstruction; oesophageal infections; oesophageal motility disorders; oesophageal rupture