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Plummer-Vinson syndrome
Also known as:
Kelly's syndrome
Paterson-Kelly syndrome
Paterson’s syndrome
Paterson-Brown-Kelly syndrome
Waldenström-Kjellberg syndrome
Associated persons:
Adam Brown-Kelly
Sven Roland Kjellberg
Donald Ross Paterson
Henry Stanley Plummer
Porter Paisley Vinson
Johann Henning Waldenström
Description:
A syndrome characterized by an iron-deficiency anaemia, atrophic changes in the buccal, glossopharyngeal, and oesophageal mucous membranes, koilonycha (spoon-shaped finger nails), and dysphagia. The dysphagia is due to a web formed in the postcricoid region. Carcinoma of the tongue and postcricoid region are complications. It is most common in middle aged women, rarely in the male. Etiology unknown.
Bibliography:
- H. S. Plummer:
Diffuse dilatation of the esophagus without anatomic stenosis (cardiospasm). A report of ninety-one cases.
Journal of the American Medical Association, Chicago, 1912, 58: 2013-2015.
- P. P. Vinson:
A case of cardiospasm with dilatation and angulation of the esophagus.
Medical Clinics of North America, Philadelphia, PA., 1919, 3: 623-627.
- A. B. Kelly:
Spasm at the entrance of the esophagus.
The Journal of Laryngology, Rhinology, and Otology, London, 1919, 34: 285-289.
- D. R. Paterson:
A clinical type of dysphagia.
The Journal of Laryngology, Rhinology, and Otology, London, 1919, 24: 289-291.
- J. Waldenström, D. R. Kjellberg:
The roentgenological diagnosis of sideropenic dysphagia (Plummer-Vinson’s syndrome).
Acta radiologica, Stockholm, 1939, 20: 618.
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