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Ten year survival after excision of squamous cell cancer in Zenker's diverticulum: report of a case
BACKGROUND: Zenker's diverticulum (ZD) has been increasingly recognized as a site of primary epithelial malignancy. Pitt in 1896 described the first case. METHODS: Between 1990 and 2005, 30 patients affected of esophageal diverticulum were referred to our Department. RESULTS: The pathological r...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1440864/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16569226 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-4-17 |
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author | Dionigi, Gianlorenzo Sessa, Fausto Rovera, Francesca Boni, Luigi Carrafiello, Gianpaolo Dionigi, Renzo |
author_facet | Dionigi, Gianlorenzo Sessa, Fausto Rovera, Francesca Boni, Luigi Carrafiello, Gianpaolo Dionigi, Renzo |
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description | BACKGROUND: Zenker's diverticulum (ZD) has been increasingly recognized as a site of primary epithelial malignancy. Pitt in 1896 described the first case. METHODS: Between 1990 and 2005, 30 patients affected of esophageal diverticulum were referred to our Department. RESULTS: The pathological results revealed one case of squamous cell carcinoma. On follow-up 10 years after diverticulectomy alone, the patient was alive and well without evidence of recurrence. CONCLUSION: Our case reported provides additional data on clinical decision when the tumor is well localized without full-thickness penetration or extension to the line of resection. In this patient, long-term survival and apparent disease control have been effected by diverticulectomy alone. A case of such long survival is very rare. |
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spelling | pubmed-14408642006-04-20 Ten year survival after excision of squamous cell cancer in Zenker's diverticulum: report of a case Dionigi, Gianlorenzo Sessa, Fausto Rovera, Francesca Boni, Luigi Carrafiello, Gianpaolo Dionigi, Renzo World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Zenker's diverticulum (ZD) has been increasingly recognized as a site of primary epithelial malignancy. Pitt in 1896 described the first case. METHODS: Between 1990 and 2005, 30 patients affected of esophageal diverticulum were referred to our Department. RESULTS: The pathological results revealed one case of squamous cell carcinoma. On follow-up 10 years after diverticulectomy alone, the patient was alive and well without evidence of recurrence. CONCLUSION: Our case reported provides additional data on clinical decision when the tumor is well localized without full-thickness penetration or extension to the line of resection. In this patient, long-term survival and apparent disease control have been effected by diverticulectomy alone. A case of such long survival is very rare. BioMed Central 2006-03-28 /pmc/articles/PMC1440864/ /pubmed/16569226 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-4-17 Text en Copyright © 2006 Dionigi et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Dionigi, Gianlorenzo Sessa, Fausto Rovera, Francesca Boni, Luigi Carrafiello, Gianpaolo Dionigi, Renzo Ten year survival after excision of squamous cell cancer in Zenker's diverticulum: report of a case |
title | Ten year survival after excision of squamous cell cancer in Zenker's diverticulum: report of a case |
title_full | Ten year survival after excision of squamous cell cancer in Zenker's diverticulum: report of a case |
title_fullStr | Ten year survival after excision of squamous cell cancer in Zenker's diverticulum: report of a case |
title_full_unstemmed | Ten year survival after excision of squamous cell cancer in Zenker's diverticulum: report of a case |
title_short | Ten year survival after excision of squamous cell cancer in Zenker's diverticulum: report of a case |
title_sort | ten year survival after excision of squamous cell cancer in zenker's diverticulum: report of a case |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1440864/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16569226 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-4-17 |
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