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Occurrence of esophageal carcinoma after gastrectomy
Author(s) -
Kuwano Hiroyuki,
Matsuda Hiroyuki,
Nagamatsu Masaaki,
Inoue Tetsuya,
Ohno Shinji,
Mori Masaki,
Sugimachi Keizo
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.201
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1096-9098
pISSN - 0022-4790
DOI - 10.1002/jso.2930410205
Subject(s) - medicine , gastrectomy , carcinoma , general surgery , gastroenterology , cancer
Abstract A review of data on 548 patients with primary squamous cell carcinoma revealed that 24 (4.4%) had had gastrectomy. Although the interval of the gastrectomy due to peptic ulcer or gastric cancer and esophageal cancer was 13.4 ± 7.9 and 5.8 ± 4.2 years, respectively, this difference was thought to be due only to the occurrence of each disease. The incidence of the occurrence of the lower esophageal cancer after gastrectomy was 29.2%, not significantly higher than the 22.4% incidence of lower esophageal cancer in overall cases. Histopathological investigation of the 13 resected esophageal cancer tissues from gastrectomized patients revealed a mild esophagitis in some cases, with no significant histologic characteristics. Thus esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and previous gastrectomy may be incidentally related.