Three weeks after a long operation on his neck and spine, a 75-year-old man began having trouble swallowing. He also had a globus sensation, the persistent feeling of a lump in the throat.
When doctors passed a camera down his esophagus, they found something unusual. The tube was being narrowed from the outside, and whatever was pressing on it was pulsating. The images show a pulsing blood vessel compressing the esophagus.
