15th September 2020

A 70-year old woman presents with a three-month history of difficulty swallowing

A 70-year old woman presents with a three-month history of difficulty swallowing. She describes the feeling of a lump in her throat when she is eating, that food appears to ‘get stuck’ at, and that sometimes this causes her to cough the food back up. It is not painful to swallow. The patient thinks she has lost some weight, but not a huge amount. She does not think the problem has been getting much worse over the three months. 

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