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A 6-year-old girl with ataxia telangiectasia syndrome was found to have multiple bands longitudinally traversing her esophagus, and esophageal aperistalsis. In the past, the patient was also known to have had esophageal candidiasis. The bands may have been congenital or may have been produced when linear ulcers caused by fungal esophagitis undermined mucosal strips and then healed, leaving tissue bands attached only at their extremities to the esophageal wall. The esophageal motor dysfunction may have been attributable to esophageal candidiasis, or may have been a hitherto unrecognized component of the ataxia telangiectasia syndrome.
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PMID:Longitudinal esophageal bands associated with esophageal aperistalsis: speculations on pathogenesis. 63 91