title: Lymphoepithelioma-like esophageal carcinoma: report of a case.
abstract: We herein report the rare case of a patient suffering from lymphoepithelioma-like poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus. The patient was a 74-year-old woman in whom an esophageal tumor was found during an operation for thyroid cancer. After performing a subtotal thyroidectomy and cervical esophagectomy, esophageal reconstruction was performed using a free jejunal graft. Based on the results of the pathological examination, the esophageal tumor was diagnosed to be primary lymphoepithelioma-like esophageal cancer, not metastasis of either unknown nasopharyngeal cancer or thyroid cancer. Since surgery, she has survived postoperatively for more than 4 years with no evidence of recurrent disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Ishikawa Prefectural Central Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tatsuzawa
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yagi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fujioka
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kitagawa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nakagawa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Minato
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kurumaya
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Matsunou
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D016629:Esophagectomy; D004944:Esophagoplasty; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D013965:Thyroidectomy