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A 57-year-old man, who had been diagnosed as having flask type, grade II achalasia of the esophagus at the age of 26, underwent Heller’s esophagomyectomy in a nearby hospital in 1971. A type 0-Is lesion measuring 2 cm in size was found on the middle thoracic esophagus in September 2002. A protruding tumor with a central depression, not stained with iodine, was detected by endoscopic examination. Standard...
Basaloid squamous carcinoma (BSC) of the esophagus is a rare but distinct variant of esophageal carcinoma, identical to BSC of the upper aerodigestive tract. The incidence of BSC has been reported to present 0.4–3.6% of total esophageal malignant tumors. The average age of BSC patients was 64 years, ranging from 42 to 87 years, with male predominance (male to female ratio 6.8:1). The tumor preferentially...
A 60-year-old man diagnosed with esophageal cancer of the lower thoracic esophagus was referred for curative operation. Thoracoscopic esophagectomy with two-field lymph node dissection was performed without neoadjuvant therapy. Histopathological findings revealed three different components of carcinoma in the same tumor specimen: basaloid, adenocarcinomatous and squamous components. These different...
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