{"id":30,"date":"2017-06-20T13:34:33","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T12:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journals.myesr.org\/insights-imaging\/2017\/06\/20\/nonmalignantoesophageal\/"},"modified":"2017-06-20T13:34:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T12:34:33","slug":"nonmalignantoesophageal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.myesr.org\/insights-imaging\/highlights\/nonmalignantoesophageal\/","title":{"rendered":"Identifying non-malignant oesophageal diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is important to recognise non-malignant oesophageal diseases; however, they can easily go unnoticed or be misdiagnosed radiologically. With this paper, the authors aim to cover the important clinical features and imaging findings of non-malignant pathology of the oesophagus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teaching points:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Non-malignant oesophageal disease can be categorised by the imaging appearance of wall and lumen<\/li>\n<li>Scleroderma and achalasia both cause lumen dilatation via different pathophysiologic pathways.<\/li>\n<li>Oesophageal wall thickening can be inflammatory, neoplastic, traumatic, or vascular in aetiology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Non-malignant oesophageal diseases are critical to recognize, but can be easily overlooked or misdiagnosed radiologically. In this paper, we cover the salient clinical features and imaging findings of non-malignant pathology of the oesophagus. We organize the many non-malignant diseases of the oesophagus into two major categories: luminal disorders and wall disorders. Luminal disorders include dilatation\/narrowing (e.g. achalasia, scleroderma, and stricture) and foreign body impaction. Wall disorders include wall thickening (e.g. oesophagitis, benign neoplasms, oesophageal varices, and intramural hematoma), wall thinning\/outpouching (e.g. epiphrenic diverticulum, Zenker diverticulum, and Killian-Jamieson diverticulum), wall rupture (e.g. iatrogenic perforation, Boerhaave Syndrome, and Mallory-Weiss Syndrome), and fistula formation (e.g. pericardioesophageal fistula, tracheoesophageal fistula, and aortoesophageal fistula). It is the role of the radiologist to recognize the classic imaging patterns of these non-malignant oesophageal diseases to facilitate the delivery of appropriate and prompt medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s13244-017-0548-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marini T, Desai A, Kaproth-Joslin K et al. (2017) Imaging of the oesophagus: beyond cancer. Insights Imaging 8(3):365-376. doi:10.1007\/s13244-017-0548-3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is important to recognise non-malignant oesophageal diseases; however, they can easily go unnoticed or be misdiagnosed radiologically. 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