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Diseases associated with or mimicking achalasia
1Department of Gastroenterology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North America
|April 25, 2001
Abstract:
Achalasia may be associated with some rare systemic diseases. In addition, a few conditions produce a syndrome often indistinguishable from achalasia. Most of these diseases are malignant and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of idiopathic achalasia.