esophagitis

acute:
- thickened >3mm wide folds with irregular lobulated contour
- mucosal nodularity (multiple ulcerations with intervening edema)
- erosions
- vertically oriented ulcers (3-10 mm)
- inflammatory esophagogastric polyp (rare): proximal gastric fold extending across GE junction
- abnormal motility
chronic:
- luminal narrowing with tapered transition to proximal dilatation
- circumferential/eccentric stricture
- pseudodiverticula

Yong H. Hahn, MD - 2 February 1995
Last updated: 1 September 2006