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Diseases of the Esophagus and Stomach

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The esophagus and stomach are susceptible to a wide spectrum of diseases, including benign and malignant tumors, inflammatory diseases, and other conditions. For the diagnosis of this large variety of disorders, multimodality imaging is required. Barium studies, particularly double-contrast studies, continue to have a major role in the diagnostic work-up of inflammatory diseases and in post-operative follow-up, whereas cross-sectional imaging studies, particularly multidetector computed tomography CT (MDCT), is used in the pre-operative staging of oncological disorders. In this chapter, we review the most frequent diseases and describe the use of different imaging modalities for their diagnostic work-up.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Penn Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Marc S. Levine

  2. Department of Radiology, Medical University of Vienna, General Hospital of Vienna, Wien, Austria

    Ahmed Ba-Ssalamah

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  1. Radiology, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland

    J. Hodler

  2. Kilchberg/Zurich, Switzerland

    Ch. L. Zollikofer

  3. Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland

    G. K. Von Schulthess

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Levine, M.S., Ba-Ssalamah, A. (2010). Diseases of the Esophagus and Stomach. In: Hodler, J., Zollikofer, C.L., Von Schulthess, G.K. (eds) Diseases of the Abdomen and Pelvis 2010–2013. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-1637-8_3

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