[A case report of esophageal small cell carcinoma responding well to chemotherapy of 5-FU and cisplatin combined with radiotherapy].

A seventy-eight year-old man with esophageal small cell carcinoma was reported. He was treated with chemotherapy of 5-FU and Cisplatin combined with radiotherapy. After 3 Courses of chemotherapy, the tumor almost disappeared. A biopsy specimen revealed moderate dysplasia but did not show residue of small cell carcinoma. The patient had lived with no evidence of cancer recurrence for 1.5 years. He died of lung metastasis and pleuritis carcinomatosa about two years after the first treatment with chemotherapy. Chemotherapy of 5-FU and Cisplatin (combined with radiotherapy) is one of the useful treatments for patients with small cell carcinoma of the esophagus.