title: Incidental detection of tubular esophageal duplication in gastric cardia malignancy.
abstract: Congenital esophageal duplications represent about 15% of digestive tract duplications. We report a 38-year-old man who presented with longstanding heartburn and recent dysphagia. Endoscopy showed communicating tubular duplication of lower esophagus with ulceroproliferative growth at the gastric cardia extending into the lower esophagus. Histology of radical esophagogastrectomy specimen showed poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma of gastric cardia without evidence of Barrett's esophagus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Cochin, India. rmgastro@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Rajiv
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mehta
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Unnikrishnan
authors.forename: O V
authors.initials: OV
authors.lastname: Sudheer
authors.forename: Anil
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: John
authors.forename: Puneet
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dhar
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sudhindran
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Balakrishnan
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D000328:Adult; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D002299:Cardia / Q000473:pathology; D000013:Congenital Abnormalities / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D016629:Esophagectomy / Q000379:methods; D004943:Esophagogastric Junction / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D004947:Esophagus / Q000002:abnormalities*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005743:Gastrectomy / Q000379:methods; D005773:Gastroscopy / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008297:Male; D018570:Risk Assessment; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome