Shay S S
Department of Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC.
Gastroenterol Clin North Am. 1991 Dec;20(4):673-90.
This article discusses a wide spectrum of intrinsic benign structural lesions of the esophagus. Additionally discussed are extrinsic benign structural lesions that may cause esophageal symptoms. Because any congenital anomaly or disease of a structure that normally impinges on the esophagus, or is adjacent to it, may distort the esophagus, we review disorders from several different organ systems.