A Case Report of Esophageal Adenosquamous Carcinoma with Liver Metastasis

Yasuyoshi Nikaido, Hideharu Yamanaka, Takayuki Motohiro, Tsuyoshi Mori, Takashi Mouri, Tokio Okusa, Yoshinori Hamada, Yasushi Nakane, Koshiro Hioki

Second Department of Surgery, Kansai Medical University

The patient was 62-year-old man who visited a local doctor with a chief complaint of dysphagia, and was referred to this hospital for further examination. Upper gastrointestinal series and gastrointestinal endoscopy showed a well-defined tumor of 5 cm in size tumorous type at the middle lower esophagus. Computed tomography and angiography revealed a metastatic liver cancer. Subtotal esophagectomy and right hepatectomy were carried out. The pathological diagnosis of the operative specimen adenosquamous carcinoma.

Key words
esophageal cancer, adenosquamous carcinoma, liver metastasis

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Yasuyoshi Nikaido Second Department of Surgery, Kansai Medical University
1 Humizonocho, Moriguchi-city, 570 JAPAN

Accepted
June 8, 1994

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