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Esophageal involvement in the context of opportunistic infections in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive patients is a frequent phenomenon. However, worldwide esophageal achalasia has been described only twice in HIV-infected patients.We report the case of a 44-year-old Caucasian patient with HIV and Hepatitis C virus (HIV/HCV) coinfection who, within 2.
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