Prolonged refractory dysphagia in polymyositis

• Main Authors: Thomas Mathew (Author), Mohan Muvvala (Author), G R K Sarma (Author), Raghunandan Nadig (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Herein, we report a patient with polymyositis (biopsy proved) with dysphagia that did not improve with conventional treatment. An upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy showed esophageal stricture and a biopsy taken from the site revealed evidence of squamous cell carcinoma.