Endoscopic Diagnosis of Leiomyosarcoma of the Esophagus, a Rare Neoplasm

We report a case of leiomyosarcoma of the distal third of the esophagus in a 51-year-old woman presenting with a six-month history of severe epigastric pain, disphagia and weight loss. The diagnosis, suspected on endoscopic examination, was preoperatively acheived by biopsy and immunohistological st...

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Autores principales: Ravini, Mario, Torre, Massimo, Zanasi, Giulio, Vanini, Marco, Camozzi, Mario
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1998
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2362608/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18493479
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/DTE.5.49
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author Ravini, Mario
Torre, Massimo
Zanasi, Giulio
Vanini, Marco
Camozzi, Mario
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Torre, Massimo
Zanasi, Giulio
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Camozzi, Mario
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description We report a case of leiomyosarcoma of the distal third of the esophagus in a 51-year-old woman presenting with a six-month history of severe epigastric pain, disphagia and weight loss. The diagnosis, suspected on endoscopic examination, was preoperatively acheived by biopsy and immunohistological stain. Surgical treatment was undertaken with good results. Differentiation between leiomyosarcoma and more common esophageal neoplasm may be difficult if based on radiographic and endoscopic appearance. Preoperative histological confirmation is therefore mandatory to schedule a wide surgical excision.
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spelling pubmed-23626082008-05-20 Endoscopic Diagnosis of Leiomyosarcoma of the Esophagus, a Rare Neoplasm Ravini, Mario Torre, Massimo Zanasi, Giulio Vanini, Marco Camozzi, Mario Diagn Ther Endosc Research Article We report a case of leiomyosarcoma of the distal third of the esophagus in a 51-year-old woman presenting with a six-month history of severe epigastric pain, disphagia and weight loss. The diagnosis, suspected on endoscopic examination, was preoperatively acheived by biopsy and immunohistological stain. Surgical treatment was undertaken with good results. Differentiation between leiomyosarcoma and more common esophageal neoplasm may be difficult if based on radiographic and endoscopic appearance. Preoperative histological confirmation is therefore mandatory to schedule a wide surgical excision. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1998 /pmc/articles/PMC2362608/ /pubmed/18493479 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/DTE.5.49 Text en Copyright © 1998 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ravini, Mario
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Vanini, Marco
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Endoscopic Diagnosis of Leiomyosarcoma of the Esophagus, a Rare Neoplasm
title Endoscopic Diagnosis of Leiomyosarcoma of the Esophagus, a Rare Neoplasm
title_full Endoscopic Diagnosis of Leiomyosarcoma of the Esophagus, a Rare Neoplasm
title_fullStr Endoscopic Diagnosis of Leiomyosarcoma of the Esophagus, a Rare Neoplasm
title_full_unstemmed Endoscopic Diagnosis of Leiomyosarcoma of the Esophagus, a Rare Neoplasm
title_short Endoscopic Diagnosis of Leiomyosarcoma of the Esophagus, a Rare Neoplasm
title_sort endoscopic diagnosis of leiomyosarcoma of the esophagus, a rare neoplasm
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2362608/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/DTE.5.49
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