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    Flowchart of the followed methodology.

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    <p>A. Health worker taking a photo of a radiograph. B. Opening JPEG files with GIMP software. C. Selection of the area. D. Pixel quantification. E. Selected “affected area.”</p

    Signs and symptoms of esophagopathy and association with esophagogram findings.

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    <p><b>Abbreviations: LES:</b> lower esophageal sphincter; <b>L:</b> in relation to liquids; <b>S:</b> in relation to solids.</p>1<p>More than one symptom in some patients.</p

    Baseline characteristics of patients, including past gastrointestinal history.

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    1<p>Alcohol intake was reported as occasional in all cases.</p>2<p>Presence of symptoms considered as originating in the gastroduodenal region, in the absence of any organic, systemic, or metabolic disease that is likely to explain the symptoms (Roma III criteria).</p>3<p>One patient presented in her past history pyloric stenosis surgery, showing normal esophagogram and barium enema.</p>4<p>Five patients presented partial colectomy previously of being admitted in the international health centre. After the surgery, one of them presented megasigma, and another one dolichomegacolon. The other three presented dolichocolon. All of them did not showed alterations in esophagogram.</p
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