PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | eosinophilia |
| Phenotype | C1262481|eosinophilic gastroenteritis |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 23105995 | While eosinophils had been previously described elsewhere in the gastrointestinal tract as eosinophilic gastroenteritis, the recognition of isolated eosinophilia within the esophagus associated with clinical symptoms of dysphagia has only recently emerged as a unique clinical entity.3 in the late 1970s, case reports began to emerge of individuals with clinical symptoms of esophageal dysmotility and eosinophilic infiltrate on esophageal biopsy.4,5 in the 1980s, patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (gerd) were noted to have eosinophilic esophageal infiltrates.6 in 1993, attwood et al. |
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