The Rare Case of Esophageal Cancer Presenting With Hematemesis in a 29-Year-Old Adult

Esophageal cancer is a disease with high mortality. This is mainly due to late presentations with nonspecific symptoms. Despite advances in surgery and chemoradiotherapy, it is the eighth most common cancer but the sixth deadliest. It is reportedly common in older patients but rare in young ones. In...

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Autores principales: Dufera, Rabira R, Osman, Abdallah, Nnamani, Ikenna, Tolu-Akinnawo, Oluwaremilekun, Smoot, Duane
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10264081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37325692
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39881
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author Dufera, Rabira R
Osman, Abdallah
Nnamani, Ikenna
Tolu-Akinnawo, Oluwaremilekun
Smoot, Duane
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Osman, Abdallah
Nnamani, Ikenna
Tolu-Akinnawo, Oluwaremilekun
Smoot, Duane
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description Esophageal cancer is a disease with high mortality. This is mainly due to late presentations with nonspecific symptoms. Despite advances in surgery and chemoradiotherapy, it is the eighth most common cancer but the sixth deadliest. It is reportedly common in older patients but rare in young ones. In this case report, we present a 29-year-old male patient with no prior medical condition who presented with hematemesis to the emergency unit and was found to have esophageal cancer with the biopsy. Not only is esophageal cancer rare in young adults, but hematemesis is a rare symptom in esophageal cancer patients.
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spelling pubmed-102640812023-06-15 The Rare Case of Esophageal Cancer Presenting With Hematemesis in a 29-Year-Old Adult Dufera, Rabira R Osman, Abdallah Nnamani, Ikenna Tolu-Akinnawo, Oluwaremilekun Smoot, Duane Cureus Internal Medicine Esophageal cancer is a disease with high mortality. This is mainly due to late presentations with nonspecific symptoms. Despite advances in surgery and chemoradiotherapy, it is the eighth most common cancer but the sixth deadliest. It is reportedly common in older patients but rare in young ones. In this case report, we present a 29-year-old male patient with no prior medical condition who presented with hematemesis to the emergency unit and was found to have esophageal cancer with the biopsy. Not only is esophageal cancer rare in young adults, but hematemesis is a rare symptom in esophageal cancer patients. Cureus 2023-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10264081/ /pubmed/37325692 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39881 Text en Copyright © 2023, Dufera et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Dufera, Rabira R
Osman, Abdallah
Nnamani, Ikenna
Tolu-Akinnawo, Oluwaremilekun
Smoot, Duane
The Rare Case of Esophageal Cancer Presenting With Hematemesis in a 29-Year-Old Adult
title The Rare Case of Esophageal Cancer Presenting With Hematemesis in a 29-Year-Old Adult
title_full The Rare Case of Esophageal Cancer Presenting With Hematemesis in a 29-Year-Old Adult
title_fullStr The Rare Case of Esophageal Cancer Presenting With Hematemesis in a 29-Year-Old Adult
title_full_unstemmed The Rare Case of Esophageal Cancer Presenting With Hematemesis in a 29-Year-Old Adult
title_short The Rare Case of Esophageal Cancer Presenting With Hematemesis in a 29-Year-Old Adult
title_sort rare case of esophageal cancer presenting with hematemesis in a 29-year-old adult
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10264081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37325692
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39881
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