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Age and Ageing 2005 34(5):521-522; doi:10.1093/ageing/afi127
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oupjournals.org

Case Report

Kyphosis, a rare cause of dysphagia

Nimit Goyal1, Ranjeet Narlawar2 and Anne Garrett3

1 Flat 102, Bradbury Court Apartments, Jubilee Road, Belfast BT9 7JL, UK
2 Department of Radiology, Royal Liverpool Hospital, Prescot Street, Liverpool L7 8XP, UK
3 Arrowe Park Hospital, Liverpool CH49 5PE, UK

Address correspondence to: N. Goyal. Fax: (+44) 28 9063 4807. Email: nimitgoyal{at}doctors.org.uk

Degenerative kyphosis is mostly asymptomatic. When symptomatic, pain and humping of the back are the commonest features. Dysphagia associated with kyphosis is a rare presentation, though it is otherwise common in older people due to various reasons. We report the case of an 81-year-old kyphotic woman who presented with dysphagia. On barium swallow examination, she was found to have an acute bend in the mid-oesophagus leading to narrowing, secondary to the kyphosis.

Keywords: kyphosis, dysphagia, barium swallow, elderly

Received April 30, 2005; accepted in revised form May 12, 2005.


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