Esophageal Neuroendocrine Carcinoma: A Case Report and Literature Review

An 85-year-old woman presented to the hospital with a five-month history of dysphagia, productive cough, dyspnea, new-onset orthopnea, and weight loss. Thoracic CT revealed a sizeable ulcerative mass within the cervical esophagus with complete luminal obstruction. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy with bio...

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Autores principales: Vayzband, Vlad, Doukas, Sotirios, Esparragoza, Paola
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Pathology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9053834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35505717
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23607
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Doukas, Sotirios
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description An 85-year-old woman presented to the hospital with a five-month history of dysphagia, productive cough, dyspnea, new-onset orthopnea, and weight loss. Thoracic CT revealed a sizeable ulcerative mass within the cervical esophagus with complete luminal obstruction. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy with biopsy demonstrated large neoplastic cells with distant nucleoli. The patient was diagnosed with poorly differentiated large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma and was treated palliatively with esophageal stenting and radio and chemotherapy.
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spelling pubmed-90538342022-05-02 Esophageal Neuroendocrine Carcinoma: A Case Report and Literature Review Vayzband, Vlad Doukas, Sotirios Esparragoza, Paola Cureus Pathology An 85-year-old woman presented to the hospital with a five-month history of dysphagia, productive cough, dyspnea, new-onset orthopnea, and weight loss. Thoracic CT revealed a sizeable ulcerative mass within the cervical esophagus with complete luminal obstruction. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy with biopsy demonstrated large neoplastic cells with distant nucleoli. The patient was diagnosed with poorly differentiated large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma and was treated palliatively with esophageal stenting and radio and chemotherapy. Cureus 2022-03-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9053834/ /pubmed/35505717 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23607 Text en Copyright © 2022, Vayzband 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.
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Vayzband, Vlad
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Esophageal Neuroendocrine Carcinoma: A Case Report and Literature Review
title Esophageal Neuroendocrine Carcinoma: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full Esophageal Neuroendocrine Carcinoma: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_fullStr Esophageal Neuroendocrine Carcinoma: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full_unstemmed Esophageal Neuroendocrine Carcinoma: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_short Esophageal Neuroendocrine Carcinoma: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_sort esophageal neuroendocrine carcinoma: a case report and literature review
topic Pathology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9053834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35505717
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23607
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