Esophageal leiomyomatosis.
BACKGROUND
Esophageal leiomyomatosis is rare with an incidence that is essentially unknown with only a few reported cases. Characteristically there is proliferation of smooth muscle cells in the esophageal wall causing localized circumferential thickening. Esophageal leiomyomas are usually very slow growing and often asymptomatic. Symptomatic tumors are usually greater than five centimeters in diameter. The accepted treatment for esophageal leiomyomatosis has been surgical removal, which frequently requires esophagectomy with reconstruction.


METHODS
We report a case of a 29-year-old woman with esophageal leiomyomatosis whose presentation was not typical and magnetic resonance imaging proved diagnostic. This patient was effectively with enucleation of the tumor.


CONCLUSIONS
Recommended treatment for this condition has been total esophagectomy with reconstruction, but we report a case treated with enucleation of the tumor.
Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Ottawa, Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus, 501 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1H 8L6.
Monali
M
Misra
Donna E
DE
Maziak
Farid M
FM
Shamji
Claudine
C
Michaud
D Garth
DG
Perkins
Frederick
F
Matzinger
D000328:Adult; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018231:Leiomyomatosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D032389:Myocytes, Smooth Muscle / Q000378:metabolism