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

© 2002, C.E. Kahn, Jr.
2002-04-18