Abstract
A 14-month-old severely retarded girl with a history of regurgitation, aspiration, and recurrent pneumonia was found to suffer from diffuse oesophageal spasm. This diagnosis was made by oesophageal cine-radiography. This case suggests that diffuse oesophageal spasm is an oesophageal motility disorder that causes respiratory disease in the retarded child.
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diffuse oesophageal spasm
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Perisic, V.N., Tomomasa, T., Kuroume, T. et al. Recurrent pneumonia caused by diffuse oesophageal spasm. Eur J Pediatr 150, 139–140 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02072058
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