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Thirty-nine consecutive patients with symptoms suggestive of reflux esophagitis underwent a double contrast upper gastrointestinal series and subsequently had endoscopy with biopsy. In a control group of 164 consecutive patients without symptoms of esophagitis a double contrast examination was done with the same method.
We have found a significant increase of the diameter of the esophagus in its distal or cardiac segment (IDCE) in patients with esophagitis of Grades 1 and 2 when compared with the control group (p<0.001). Radiology was found to have correctly diagnosed 35 of the 39 cases (89.7%) and the majority of the patients had endoscopic signs of mild esophagitis.
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Graziani, L., De Nigris, E., Pesaresi, A. et al. Reflux esophagitis: Radiologic-endoscopic correlation in 39 symptomatic cases. Gastrointest Radiol 8, 1–6 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01948078
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