Abstract

RICAURTE GUERRERO, Orlando; PARAMO HERNANDEZ, David  and  REY BOLIVAR, Samuel Mauricio. Early esophageal squamous-cell carcinoma: case report and review of literature. Rev Col Gastroenterol [online]. 2006, vol.21, n.3, pp.209-214. ISSN 0120-9957.

A man 67-year-old with heartburn, epigastric pain and dyspeptic chronic symptoms; an esophagogastric endoscopy showed an eritematous and slightly depressed lesion 2 cm diameter in the medium third of esophagus. The histopathological study of endoscopic biopsies demonstrated a squamous cell carcinoma. Transhiatal esophagectomy was performed for treatment. The anatomopathological study of surgical specimen confirmed a type IIc intramucosal (m1) incipient squamous cell carcinoma. Patient remained 5 years free of disease

Keywords : Superficial and incipient squamous cell esophagic carcinoma.

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