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Persistent cough: An unexpected diagnosis
Esophageal cancer is the eighth most common cancer and the sixth most common cause of cancer death globally. Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) accounts for 70%–90% of esophageal cancers worldwide, 5% are adenocarcinoma, and 5% represent rare malignancies and metastases from other organs. We...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7380793/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32754543 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_41_20 |
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author | Panda, Suman K. Satyanarayan, Bhagyalakshmi Prasad, Satish K. Koshy, Binu |
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description | Esophageal cancer is the eighth most common cancer and the sixth most common cause of cancer death globally. Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) accounts for 70%–90% of esophageal cancers worldwide, 5% are adenocarcinoma, and 5% represent rare malignancies and metastases from other organs. We present a case where a 54-year-old lady, with multiple readmissions for persistent dry cough and respiratory symptoms, turns out to be an esophageal malignancy. CECT thorax revealed an enhancing wall thickening of the esophagus with paraoesophageal fat stranding, mediastinal lymphadenopathy, and subsegmental right lobe atelectasis, suggestive of a probable esophageal malignancy. An upper gastrointestinal endoscopy showed a circumferential esophageal growth which on biopsy and histopathological examination turned out to be a moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus. |
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spelling | pubmed-73807932020-08-03 Persistent cough: An unexpected diagnosis Panda, Suman K. Satyanarayan, Bhagyalakshmi Prasad, Satish K. Koshy, Binu J Family Med Prim Care Case Report Esophageal cancer is the eighth most common cancer and the sixth most common cause of cancer death globally. Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) accounts for 70%–90% of esophageal cancers worldwide, 5% are adenocarcinoma, and 5% represent rare malignancies and metastases from other organs. We present a case where a 54-year-old lady, with multiple readmissions for persistent dry cough and respiratory symptoms, turns out to be an esophageal malignancy. CECT thorax revealed an enhancing wall thickening of the esophagus with paraoesophageal fat stranding, mediastinal lymphadenopathy, and subsegmental right lobe atelectasis, suggestive of a probable esophageal malignancy. An upper gastrointestinal endoscopy showed a circumferential esophageal growth which on biopsy and histopathological examination turned out to be a moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC7380793/ /pubmed/32754543 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_41_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Panda, Suman K. Satyanarayan, Bhagyalakshmi Prasad, Satish K. Koshy, Binu Persistent cough: An unexpected diagnosis |
title | Persistent cough: An unexpected diagnosis |
title_full | Persistent cough: An unexpected diagnosis |
title_fullStr | Persistent cough: An unexpected diagnosis |
title_full_unstemmed | Persistent cough: An unexpected diagnosis |
title_short | Persistent cough: An unexpected diagnosis |
title_sort | persistent cough: an unexpected diagnosis |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7380793/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32754543 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_41_20 |
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