[A Case of Lymph Node Recurrence Seven Years after Curative Esophagectomy for T1a(LPM)Upper Thoracic Esophageal Cancer].

Herein, we report a case of lymph node recurrence 7 years after curative esophagectomy for T1a(LPM)upper thoracic esophageal cancer. A 70's man underwent radical esophagectomy by using video-assisted thoracic surgery and hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery(VATS and HALS)with gastric tube reconstruction via a posterior mediastinal route for upper thoracic esophageal cancer cT1bN0M0, cStageⅠ in August 2010. The pathological diagnosis was pT1a(LPM), w/d, scc, ly0, v0, ie (+), inf b, pIM0, pPM0, pDM0, pRM0, pN0, pM0, pStage 0. Moreover, he was followed-up without treatment after surgery. In November 2017, 7 years after esophagectomy, follow-up CT revealed left supraclavicular lymph node swelling. FDG-PET revealed high uptake of FDG, and lymph node recurrence was suspected. In January 2018, we performed lymph node biopsy. We could not remove the lymph node completely, because the lt common carotid artery and lt jugular vein were associated with the metastatic lymph node. The pathological diagnosis was squamous cell carcinoma. Chemoradiation therapy was performed after surgery, and patient recovery was uneventful.