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Metachronous adenocarcinoma in a gastric tube after radical surgery for oesophageal cancer

Author(s) -

Justyna Zygoń,

Jarosław Skokowski,

Jacek Zieliński,

Kamil Drucis,

K. 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.

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