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PAFMJ-Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal. 2006; 56 (1): 38-44
in English | IMEMR | ID: emr-79882

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The Study was conducted at Combined Military Hospital Rawalpindi, to identify cases of dysphagia in both genders, to see sex predominance, to find the aetiology in our population and to compare it with the literature. Study was conducted on 54 cases of dysphagia 32 male and 22 female, from outpatient department of CMH Rawalpindi. 31.45% were cases of foreign body esophagus, 16.66% were case of Carcinoma esophagus, 9.25% were of leiomyoma esophagus, 11.11% were of Carcinoma pyriform fossa hypopharynx, 7.40% were of peptic stricture esophagus, 3.7% were of globus pharyngeus, 3.7% were of Plummer Vinsons disease, 1.85% of Zenker's Diverticulum. All the esophageal pathologies have equal sex involvement. 14.81% were of postcricoid carcinoma female predominance. Our results were compared with the literature. Some esophageal pathology values were matched with the results and some were contrary what we saw in the literature


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Humans , Male , Female , Deglutition Disorders/epidemiology , Incidence , Adult , Foreign Bodies , Esophagus/pathology , Esophageal Neoplasms , Leiomyoma , Esophageal Stenosis , Plummer-Vinson Syndrome , Zenker Diverticulum
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