intramurales Hämatom des Ösophagus

Imaging of

the oesophagus: beyond cancer. Intramural Hematoma. CT angiogram of the chest in soft tissue window shows a markedly thickened oesophageal wall that is slightly higher in density than soft tissue. The oesophageal wall partly surrounds the aorta. This patient was found to have a large intramural hematoma

Esophageal

emergencies: another important cause of acute chest pain. Intramural hematoma. Sixty-one-year-old male with severe chest pain and dysphagia status post recent radiofrequency ablation for Barrett’s esophagus. a Coronal CT image shows a smoothly demarcated eccentric homogeneous intramural hematoma (asterisk) in the right wall of diffusely thick-walled esophagus (arrows). b Contrast esophagography demonstrates smoothly marginated mass effect (dotted line) on the lower esophagus by the intramural hematoma