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ArticleCureus2024

Delayed Presentation of Malignancy-Associated Pseudoachalasia of the Gastric Cardia.

Clive J Miranda, Farhan Azad, Ross R Moyer, Sasikanth N Ravi, Gina M Sparacino

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Article in Cureus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 0 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Clive J MirandaInternal Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA.
Farhan AzadInternal Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA.
Ross R MoyerInternal Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA.
Sasikanth N RaviPulmonology, Saint Peter's University Hospital, New Brunswick, USA.
Gina M SparacinoGastroenterology and Hepatology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA.
Health Net · USSaint Peter's University Hospital · USUniversity at Buffalo, State University of New York · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pseudoachalasia is a condition in which symptoms, manometry, and imaging findings highly resemble primary achalasia but has a secondary etiology. The majority of patients with pseudoachalasia have the condition as the result of a malignancy, most often at the gastroesophageal junction. There may be issues with timely identification of this malignancy as symptoms are often obscure with diagnostic testing yielding nonspecific results. We describe a case of a 65-year-old diabetic female smoker with a four-month history of intractable vomiting, abdominal pain, and weight loss who was belatedly found to have an adenocarcinoma at the gastric cardia necessitating a total gastrectomy and chemotherapy administration. The case educates clinicians on the clinical alarm symptoms related to malignant pseudoachalasia and stresses the paramount importance of performing a timely esophagogastroduodenoscopy in all cases of achalasia, even with seemingly normal imaging, to rule out pseudoachalasia related to malignancy.

Indexed as

achalasiaendoscopic ultrasound (eus)endoscopyesophageal motility disordergastric adenocarcinomagastric cardiagastric malignancygastroesophageal junction (gej)pseudoachalasia

Identifiers

PMID38481897
PMCPMC10933952
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