Richard Schatzki was a German

Germans

The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....

-American

United States

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 radiologist.

Richard Schatzki trained in radiology in Berlin with Hans Heinrich Berg (1889-1968) who was the leading diagnostic radiologist in Germany at that time. He immigrated to the USA in 1933 and subsequently worked as a radiologist in Boston

Boston

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. He was for a period President of the New England Roentgen Ray Society, of which he became an honorary member 1967.

In the 1950s, Schatzki first characterized a type of pathological stricture of the lower esophagus

Esophagus

The esophagus is an organ in vertebrates which consists of a muscular tube through which food passes from the pharynx to the stomach. During swallowing, food passes from the mouth through the pharynx into the esophagus and travels via peristalsis to the stomach...

, which is now known as a Schatzki ring

Schatzki ring

A Schatzki ring or Schatzki-Gary ring is a narrowing of the lower part of the esophagus that can cause difficulty swallowing. The narrowing is caused by a ring of mucosal tissue or muscular tissue. Patients with Schatzki rings can develop intermittent dysphagia , or, more seriously, a completely...

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