| Literature DB >> 10466052 |
N Y Hsu1, T Y Lin, C T Hsu, P P Tsai.
Abstract
A 65-year-old male patient with squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus had a transhiatal esophagectomy after a prophylactic tube jejunostomy. The tube was removed 3 weeks after surgery. Ten months later, a painless 2-cm abdominal mass was noted at the previous jejunostomy site. Subsequent segmental resection of the jejunum disclosed metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus. It is possible that tumor seeding may develop at the jejunostomy site after transhiatal esophagectomy for esophageal carcinoma.Entities:
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Year: 1999 PMID： 10466052 DOI： 10.1046/j.1442-2050.1999.00036.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Dis Esophagus ISSN： 1120-8694 Impact factor: 3.429