Primary adenocystic carcinoma (cylindromatous carcinoma) of the esophagus

✍ Scribed by Donald Cade Nelms; Mario Armando Luna

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1972
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 449 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(197202)29:2<440::aid-cncr2820290228>3.0.co;2-v

✦ Synopsis

A rare primary adenocystic carcinoma (cylindromatous carcinoma) of the esophagus, removed at autopsy from a 72-year-old Caucasian man, is described in histologic detail. Only eight previous cases have been reported. The tumor was highly aggressive although morphologically identical to the salivary gland cylindroma.

RIMARY ADENOCARCINOMA OF THE ESOPHA-

P gus originates most frequently in the superficial ectopic gastric mucosa (cardiac glands). On rare occasions it has been demonstrated to arise in the deep glands of the submucosa. Submucosal gland adenocarcinoma is so infrequent that Stout and Lattess were prompted to state: "The number of reported pure glandular carcinomas arising in other (than lower) parts of the esophagus is very small, indeed so few are they and so unsatisfactory are the reports that it might be questioned if the entity really exists." Similar doubts were expressed by Ackerman and del Regato.1 The present report documents a case of primary adenocystic carcinoma of the deep esophageal glands and includes a review of the 8 other cases which have been previously reported.