Benign oesophageal lesions
Last revised by Karwan T. Khoshnaw
on 20 Aug 2021
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Citation:
Radswiki T, Khoshnaw K, Bell D, et al. Benign oesophageal lesions. Reference article, Radiopaedia.org (Accessed on 25 Mar 2025) https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-12704
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Article created:
2 Jan 2011,
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Last revised:
20 Aug 2021,
Karwan T. Khoshnaw
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Synonyms:
- Benign esophageal neoplasms
- Benign oesophageal tumours
- Benign esophageal tumours
- Oesophageal neoplasms - benign
- Esophageal neoplasms - benign
- Benign tumour of the oesophagus
- Benign tumour of the esophagus
- Benign tumor of the oesophagus
- Benign tumors of the oesophagus
- Benign tumours of the oesophagus
- Benign oesophageal neoplasms
- Benign oesophageal lesion
Benign oesophageal lesions are less symptomatic than malignant oesophageal lesions, making up for only 1% of clinically apparent oesophageal lesions.
Pathology
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oesophageal leiomyoma (>50%)
- may calcify
-
oesophageal fibrovascular polyp (~12.5%)
- may contain fat
- oesophageal duplication cyst (10%)
- oesophageal papilloma (3%)
- oesophageal fibroma (3%)
- oesophageal haemangioma (2%)
- oesophageal lipoma
- oesophageal hamartoma
- oesophageal neurofibroma
References
- 1. Weissleder R, Wittenberg J, Harisinghani MG. Primer of diagnostic imaging. Mosby Inc. (2007) ISBN:0323040683. Read it at Google Books - Find it at Amazon
- 2. Jang KM, Lee KS, Lee SJ et-al. The spectrum of benign esophageal lesions: imaging findings. Korean J Radiol. 2003;3 (3): 199-210. Free text at pubmed - Pubmed citation
- 3. Lewis RB, Mehrotra AK, Rodriguez P et-al. From the radiologic pathology archives: esophageal neoplasms: radiologic-pathologic correlation. Radiographics. 2013;33 (4): 1083-108. doi:10.1148/rg.334135027 - Pubmed citation
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