1. Incidental detection of tubular esophageal duplication in gastric cardia malignancy.
- Author
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Mehta R, Unnikrishnan G, Sudheer OV, John A, Dhar P, Sudhindran S, and Balakrishnan V
- Subjects
- Adenocarcinoma surgery, Adult, Biopsy, Needle, Cardia pathology, Congenital Abnormalities diagnosis, Congenital Abnormalities surgery, Esophagectomy methods, Esophagogastric Junction surgery, Follow-Up Studies, Gastrectomy methods, Gastroscopy methods, Humans, Immunohistochemistry, Male, Risk Assessment, Stomach Neoplasms surgery, Treatment Outcome, Adenocarcinoma diagnosis, Esophagogastric Junction pathology, Esophagus abnormalities, Stomach Neoplasms diagnosis
- Abstract
Congenital esophageal duplications represent about 15% of digestive tract duplications. We report a 38-year-old man who presented with longstanding heartburn and recent dysphagia. Endoscopy showed communicating tubular duplication of lower esophagus with ulceroproliferative growth at the gastric cardia extending into the lower esophagus. Histology of radical esophagogastrectomy specimen showed poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma of gastric cardia without evidence of Barrett's esophagus.
- Published
- 2004