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Table 4 Pooled diagnoses with relevance to FBO following the initial hospital visit due to FBO and following later hospital visits related to the initial FBO or reoccurrence of FBO

From: A retrospective cohort study on oesophageal food bolus obstruction in the North Denmark region in 2021—two thirds were never diagnosed with a cause

Diagnoses, with relevance to FBO, following the acute hospital visit (including prior known diagnoses), % (n)

No diagnoses

76.0% (114)

Oesophageal stricture

14.0% (21)

EoE

8.7% (13)

Achalasia

2.0% (3)

Oesophageal or gastric cardia cancer

2.0% (3)

Previous fundoplication surgery

1.3% (2)

Schatzki ring

0.7% (1)

Diagnosis, with relevance to FBO, following later hospital visits related to the initial hospital visit with FBO, or unrelated due to reoccurrence of FBO (including prior known diagnoses), % (n)

No diagnoses

66.0% (99)

EoE

17.3% (26)

Oesophageal stricture

15.3% (23)

Oesophageal or gastric cardia cancer

5.3% (8)

Schatzki ring

4.0% (6)

Achalasia

2.7% (4)

Previous fundoplication surgery

1.3% (2)

  1. N; number, FBO; food bolus obstruction, EoE; eosinophilic oesophagitis