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Skeletal muscle metastases from carcinoma are very rare. This report describes two cases of skeletal muscle metastasis from esophageal cancer as the first distant metastasis. Case 1, a 58-year-old man with stage IVa upper thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (SqCC), underwent chemoradiotherapy (CRT) and a subtotal esophagectomy with a three-field lymph node dissection. After the operation,...
Background Pulmonary complications occur most frequently following a transthoracic esophagectomy for esophageal cancer and would get to be lethal occasionally. In this study, we sought to determine the effect of respiratory physiotherapy, corticosteroid administration, and the use of the video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) esophagectomy with a small thoracotomy incision, on the incidence of pulmonary...
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