Open AccessMetachronous adenocarcinoma in a gastric tube after radical surgery for oesophageal cancer
Author(s) -
Justyna Izabela Zygoń,
Jarosław Skokowski,
Jacek Zieliński,
Kamil Drucis,
Katarzyna Gołąbek-Dropiewska
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
bmj case reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.231
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 1757-790X
DOI - 10.1136/bcr.07.2009.2116
Subject(s) - medicine , adenocarcinoma , cancer , radical surgery , stomach , carcinoma , esophagectomy , presentation (obstetrics) , basal cell , general surgery , surgery , gastric carcinoma , gastroenterology , esophageal cancer
In recent years the prognosis for oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients has improved. Together with this improvement, the occurrence of second primary carcinoma, especially gastric carcinoma, in tubes constructed from the stomach after oesophagectomy must be taken into account. We report a case of a patient who had this clinical presentation, which was revealed not in the normal follow-up, but in a consecutive operation carried out because of an anastomotic problem.