Forty years of experience with carcinoma of the esophagus at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center is reviewed. Of 1859 patients, 1529 were found to have epidermoid carcinoma and 45 had primary adenocarcinoma. Treatment and results in these 45 patients are discussed. Because of varying reports
Choroidal metastasis from primary adenocarcinoma of the esophagus
β Scribed by Hemen K. Parikh; Dr. Raman K. Deshpande; Durga V. Swaroop; Prafulla B. Desai
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 281 KB
- Volume
- 52
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4790
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β¦ Synopsis
Abstract
Primary adenocarcinoma of the esophagus is uncommon and the incidence in the middle third of the esophagus is rare, accounting for about 0.7%β1.5% of cases. Metastasis of carcinoma to the eye is a rare occurrence. We report here a case of primary adenocarcinoma of the middle third of the esophagus with choroidal metastasis. Β© 1993 WileyβLiss, Inc.
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