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Congenital Esophageal Stenosis in Adults

Clinical and Radiographic Findings in Seven Patients

¹ Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce St., Philadelphia, PA 19104.
² Department of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
³ Department of Radiology, Presbyterian Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
⁴ Department of Radiology, Bayhealth Medical Center, Dover, DE 19901.

OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to determine the clinical and radiographic findings in seven adults with congenital esophageal stenosis.

CONCLUSION. In young or middle-aged individuals, particularly men with long-standing dysphagia, an upper or mid esophageal stricture with multiple ringlike constrictions is a characteristic appearance of congenital esophageal stenosis on double-contrast esophagography.

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