Medical Image - (2015) Volume 5, Issue 2
Widening of Mediastinum: Achalasia
- Chien-Ming Chao1,2 and Wei-Ting Lin3,4*
- 1Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center, Liouying, Tainan, Taiwan
- 2Department of Nursing, Min-Hwei College of Health Care Management, Tainan, Taiwan
- 3Department of Orthopaedics, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan
- 4Department of Physical Therapy, Shu Zen College of Medicine and Management, Taiwan
*Corresponding Author:
Wei-Ting Lin, Department of Orthopaedics, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan
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Description
A 50-year-old man presented with progressive dysphagia for months. Chest radiography showed widening of mediastinum with heterogeneous density (Figure 1A, arrows).
Computed tomography of chest disclosed significant dilation of thoracic esophagus with diffuse smooth wall thickening, distal beaking-apperacnce narrowing, and much of fluid and food retention (Figure 1B and C). Therefore, the diagnosis of achalasia was confirmed.
Citation: Lin WT, et al. (2015) Widening of Mediastinum: Achalasia . Emerg Med (Los Angel) 5: i107.
Copyright: © 2015 Lin WT, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
