Esophageal cancer in a young woman with bulimia nervosa: a case report

Adenocarcinoma of the esophagus has increased dramatically within the United States and continues to have a poor prognosis despite aggressive treatment. Identifying potential risk factors is critical for the early detection and treatment of this disease. The present case report describes a very youn...

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Autores principales: Shinohara, Eric T, Swisher-McClure, Samuel, Husson, Michael, Sun, Weijing, Metz, James M
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2213673/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18047676
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-160
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author Shinohara, Eric T
Swisher-McClure, Samuel
Husson, Michael
Sun, Weijing
Metz, James M
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description Adenocarcinoma of the esophagus has increased dramatically within the United States and continues to have a poor prognosis despite aggressive treatment. Identifying potential risk factors is critical for the early detection and treatment of this disease. The present case report describes a very young woman who developed adenocarcinoma of the esophagus after only a brief history of bulimia. These findings suggest that even in very young patients, bulimia may represent a risk factor for adenocarcinoma of the esophagus.
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spelling pubmed-22136732008-01-25 Esophageal cancer in a young woman with bulimia nervosa: a case report Shinohara, Eric T Swisher-McClure, Samuel Husson, Michael Sun, Weijing Metz, James M J Med Case Reports Case Report Adenocarcinoma of the esophagus has increased dramatically within the United States and continues to have a poor prognosis despite aggressive treatment. Identifying potential risk factors is critical for the early detection and treatment of this disease. The present case report describes a very young woman who developed adenocarcinoma of the esophagus after only a brief history of bulimia. These findings suggest that even in very young patients, bulimia may represent a risk factor for adenocarcinoma of the esophagus. BioMed Central 2007-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC2213673/ /pubmed/18047676 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-160 Text en Copyright © 2007 Shinohara 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.
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Husson, Michael
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Esophageal cancer in a young woman with bulimia nervosa: a case report
title Esophageal cancer in a young woman with bulimia nervosa: a case report
title_full Esophageal cancer in a young woman with bulimia nervosa: a case report
title_fullStr Esophageal cancer in a young woman with bulimia nervosa: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Esophageal cancer in a young woman with bulimia nervosa: a case report
title_short Esophageal cancer in a young woman with bulimia nervosa: a case report
title_sort esophageal cancer in a young woman with bulimia nervosa: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2213673/
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