Diagnosis and treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis

Eosinophilic esophagitis is a newer disease entity that has been diagnosed with increasing frequency over the past 10 years. Patients present with a variety of symptoms including vomiting, failure to thrive, abdominal pain, dysphagia, and/or food impaction depending on the age of the patient. The di...

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Autor principal: Spergel, Jonathan
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medicine Reports Ltd 2009
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2924731/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20948735
http://dx.doi.org/10.3410/M1-46
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description Eosinophilic esophagitis is a newer disease entity that has been diagnosed with increasing frequency over the past 10 years. Patients present with a variety of symptoms including vomiting, failure to thrive, abdominal pain, dysphagia, and/or food impaction depending on the age of the patient. The diagnosis is confirmed by endoscopy with eosinophilic inflammation localized to the oesophagus, an area typically void of eosinophils.
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spelling pubmed-29247312010-10-14 Diagnosis and treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis Spergel, Jonathan F1000 Med Rep Review Article Eosinophilic esophagitis is a newer disease entity that has been diagnosed with increasing frequency over the past 10 years. Patients present with a variety of symptoms including vomiting, failure to thrive, abdominal pain, dysphagia, and/or food impaction depending on the age of the patient. The diagnosis is confirmed by endoscopy with eosinophilic inflammation localized to the oesophagus, an area typically void of eosinophils. Medicine Reports Ltd 2009-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC2924731/ /pubmed/20948735 http://dx.doi.org/10.3410/M1-46 Text en © 2009 Medicine Reports Ltd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. You may not use this work for commercial purposes
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Diagnosis and treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis
title Diagnosis and treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis
title_full Diagnosis and treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis
title_fullStr Diagnosis and treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis
title_full_unstemmed Diagnosis and treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis
title_short Diagnosis and treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis
title_sort diagnosis and treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2924731/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3410/M1-46
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