Among 1,420 patients with thoracic esophageal carcinoma, 85 (6.1 %) had synchronous gastric carcinoma. Seventy-two patients (84.7%) underwent esophagectomy . Their operative mortality and prognosis were similar to those without gastric carcinoma. Among them, 25 patients, of whom the majority had adv
Simultaneous detection of esophageal and gastric carcinomas
โ Scribed by W. F. C. van Gelderen
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 698 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0942-8925
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โฆ Synopsis
The case histories of six patients are presented where the diagnosis of carcinoma of the esophagus and the stomach was made at the same time by barium studies. The clinical history was elusive in two patients. In four of the six patients, histological proof of squarnous carcinoma of the esophagus and adenocarcinoma of the stomach was obtained, but in the other two biopsy of the gastric lesion was not possible because of the extensive esophageal cancer.
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