A Case Report of Early Esophageal Cancer with the Right Aortic Arch

Hideyuki Ishiguro, Yoshiyuki Kuwabara, Noriyuki Shinoda, Atsushi Satoh, Masahiro Kimura, Hiroshi Koyama, Yukio Terashita, Shigeru Konishi, Hironori Sugiura and Yoshitaka Fujii

Department of Second Surgery, Nagoya City University School of Medicine

We report a case of the esophagus cancer with the right aortic arch. A 58-year-old man found to have an abnormality in esophagoscopy was found in radiography and computed tomography (CT) to have an abnormal aortic arch. Esophagoscopy showed early esophageal cancer, necessitating left thoracotomy. The cancer was IIIb Stewart's type. It occurred due to pressure by the left ductus arteriosus. A review of the literature showed that only 7 examples including our case, had been reported of esophagus cancer in the right aortic arch.

Key words
right aortic arch, left ductus ateriosus, esophageal cancer

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Hideyuki Ishiguro Department of Second Surgery, Nagoya City University School of Medicine 1 Kawasumi Mizuho-cho, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya, 467-8601 JAPAN

Accepted
October 30, 2002

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