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Case Reports
. 1980 Sep;2(3):273-5.
doi: 10.1097/00004836-198009000-00012.

Disordered esophageal motility in Wilson's disease

G Haggstrom, B I Hirschowitz
Case Reports

Disordered esophageal motility in Wilson's disease

G Haggstrom et al. J Clin Gastroenterol. 1980 Sep.

Abstract

We describe the manometric findings in a patient with hepatolenticular degeneration (Wilson's disease). After 21 years of penicillamine therapy, one of the principal neurological problems remaining in a 49-year-old white man with Wilson's disease is food-induced dysphagia. Barium contrast studies showed gross incoordination of the upper esophagus; the manometric study revealed dysmotility of the mid and distal esophagus.

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