{"title":"Familial childhood achalasia.","authors":"M E Senocak, A Hiçsönmez, N Büyükpamukçu","doi":"10.1055/s-2008-1042561","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Achalasia is infrequently reported in infants and children. It occurs exceedingly rarely in siblings. Only 33 cases of familial childhood achalasia were collected in the literature till 1987. Three definite cases and one suspicious additional case are presented and the aetiology is discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":77648,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur Kinderchirurgie : organ der Deutschen, der Schweizerischen und der Osterreichischen Gesellschaft fur Kinderchirurgie = Surgery in infancy and childhood","volume":"45 2","pages":"111-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1990-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1055/s-2008-1042561","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Zeitschrift fur Kinderchirurgie : organ der Deutschen, der Schweizerischen und der Osterreichischen Gesellschaft fur Kinderchirurgie = Surgery in infancy and childhood","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1055/s-2008-1042561","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Achalasia is infrequently reported in infants and children. It occurs exceedingly rarely in siblings. Only 33 cases of familial childhood achalasia were collected in the literature till 1987. Three definite cases and one suspicious additional case are presented and the aetiology is discussed.