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Classroom classification

百科

Pediatric achalasia

儿科综合

Common symptoms

吞咽困难、小儿进食易呕吐、胃痛

The pathology of disease

Pediatric achalasia is failure of LES relaxation; dysphagia; regurgitation; chest pain; child; bird-beak on barium; pneumatic dilation/Heller.

Symptoms

Dysphagia; regurgitation; chest pain; failure to thrive; child; bird-beak on barium; no peristalsis

Causes

Loss of myenteric plexus; LES failure to relax; children.

Treatment

Pneumatic dilation; Heller myotomy; botulinum toxin; pediatric gastroenterology/surgery

Dept

Pediatric gastroenterology / pediatric surgery.

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