Abstract
Cardiospasm in infancy and childhood is extremely rare. This is evidenced by the fact that in over 20,000 roentgen-ray studies of the gastro-intestinal tract made at Bellevue Hospital over a period of six years, the case reported in this paper represents the first one encountered in a child 11 years of age. A survey of the literature from 1879 to the present time reveals reports of only eleven authentic cases. CASES REPORTED IN THE LITERATURE Case1 (Gottstein1).—A boy, aged 4 years, complained of dysphagia and vomiting even when small amounts of food were eaten. A sound met with resistance at the cardia. Esophagoscopy showed a normal but contracted cardia, so that the instrument could not be passed. Narcosis failed to relieve this spasm. Case2 (Freund2).—A boy, aged 2 years and 3 months, was breast fed until he was 4 months old; then he was
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