What is esophageal leiomyoma

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My friend has been suffering from epigastric discomfort, and sometimes acid regurgitation and loss of appetite. Later, I got the disease of esophageal leiomyoma. What is esophageal leiomyoma?

What is esophageal leiomyoma

Firstly, benign esophageal tumors are rare, accounting for 0.5% - 0.8% of all esophageal tumors, 90% of which are esophageal leiomyomas. Because the symptoms are mild or asymptomatic, it is often ignored. In recent years, due to the progress of X-ray and other examination techniques, the number of cases found gradually increased. The symptoms of this disease are mild dysphagia or retrosternal pain. Most of the symptoms were intermittent. It may be accompanied by epigastric discomfort, acid regurgitation, belching and loss of appetite.

Secondly, about half of the patients with leiomyoma had no symptoms at all, and were found by chest X-ray examination or gastrointestinal radiography for other diseases. Even if the symptoms are mild, the most common is mild hypopharyngeal obstruction, rarely affect the normal diet. The course of the disease can be several months to more than ten years. Even though the tumor is quite large, the symptoms of obstruction are not serious because of its slow development. The severity of choking is not completely parallel to the size and location of the tumor. It mainly depends on the growth of the tumor around the lumen, and is related to mucosal edema and erosion on the surface of the tumor.

Finally, the symptoms of such diseases are not obvious at the initial stage. In severe cases, a small number of patients will have pain. In China, the pain behind the sternum, chest, back and upper abdomen is relatively common, with few severe pain. About one third of the patients had digestive disorders, such as heartburn, acid reflux, abdominal distension, discomfort after meals and dyspepsia. Individual patients have hematemesis and black stool and other upper gastrointestinal bleeding symptoms. Associated diseases include esophageal cancer, hiatal hernia, diverticulum, esophageal hemangioma and achalasia.

matters needing attention

Esophageal leiomyoma in the emergence, we must pay attention to, can not appear on their own medication or do not pay attention to lead to serious illness, need to be timely to the regular hospital examination and symptomatic treatment.