Iron deficiency dysphagia

Iron-deficiency dysphagia, alias: Acquired esophageal webbing, Plummer-Vinson syndrome There are different parts of the esophagus: upper esophagus web, middle esophagus web, and lower esophagus web. The main symptom is intermittent dysphagia. Most appear when eating hard food. Eating liquid food is generally asymptomatic. The patient felt food staying on the upper chest. Wasting and pale, sometimes redness, red and smooth tongue, tongue papillae disappearance, most missing or completely toothless, cleft palate, spoon-shaped nails, splenomegaly and even giant spleen. The diagnosis is affirmative if the patient reports difficulty swallowing.