The esophagus, ostensibly a simple tubular structure whose functional role often is minimized and even ignored, is, in re ality, a highly complex viscus. The problems associated with disorders of the esophagus are not only related to the usual en tities which may be anticipated in any portion of the gastroin testinal tract, but include in a major fashion the functional mechanisms indigenous to the pharyngoesophageal and eso phagogastric junctions. A number of disorders, representative of the classical cate gories of disease, affect the esophagus. These include the various congenital and...
The esophagus, ostensibly a simple tubular structure whose functional role often is minimized and even ignored, is, in re ality, a highly complex visc...
