Acute Phlegmonous Esophagogastritis

Taehoon Kim; Yeon Namgung; Sun Young Jeong; Sun-Jin Boo

doi:10.4166/kjg.2019.73.4.239

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The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology 2019; 73(4): 239-241.

Published online: 26 April 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4166/kjg.2019.73.4.239

Acute Phlegmonous Esophagogastritis

Taehoon Kim, Yeon Namgung, Sun Young Jeong¹, Sun-Jin Boo

Department of Internal Medicine, Jeju National University School of Medicine, Jeju, Korea.

¹Department of Radiology, Jeju National University School of Medicine, Jeju, Korea.

Correspondence to: Sun-jin Boo, Department of Internal Medicine, Jeju National University School of Medicine, 15 Aran 13-gil, Jeju 63241, Korea. Tel: +82-64-754-8122, Fax: +82-64-717-1131, sunjinboo@jejunu.ac.kr

Korean Society of Gastroenterology

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Fig. 1

Initial chest CT. CT scans with axial (A), sagittal (B) and coronal (C, D) images show diffuse wall thickening with intramural low density (arrows) from esophagus to gastric cardia. CT, computed tomography.

Fig. 2

Follow-up chest CT (3 weeks after medical therapy). CT scans with axial (A) and coronal (B) images reveal the improvement of diffuse wall thickening (arrows) from esophagus to gastric cardia. CT, computed tomography.

Fig. 3

Esophagographic finding (25 days after medical therapy). Esophagogram shows extraluminal barium collection (arrows) due to mucosal defects in the upper and middle esophagus.

Fig. 4

Esophagogastroduodenoscopic finding (26 days after medical therapy). Endoscopy reveals (A) a deep and round healing ulcer (white arrows) in the middle esophagus and (B) a shallow and geographic healing ulcer (black arrows) with inflammatory polyps in the upper esophagus.

Notes

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