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Acute necrotizing esophagitis: a case report
Olajide O Odelowo1, Mohamed Hassan, Joseph J Nidiry
1Department of Medicine, Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC 20060, USA. oodelowo@hotmail.com
Journal of the National Medical Association
|August 3, 2002
Abstract:
Acute necrotizing esophagitis is rare. The exact etiology is unknown in most cases. The esophagus appears black, necrotic and ulcerated on the upper endoscopy, thus the term "black esophagus" is used. Histologically, there is necrosis of the esophageal mucosa and submucosa. Here, we present a patient with cholangiocarcinoma who had upper gastrointestinal bleeding and was found to have acute necrotizing esophagitis on the upper endoscopy.