title: [A case of resection of esophageal cancer infiltrating the left main bronchus following preoperative chemo-radiotherapy and resection of metachronous lung metastasis].
abstract: We herein report a case of T4 esophageal carcinoma, which was resected after chemo-radiation therapy. In addition, the metachronous lung metastasis was also resected. A 59-year-old female with esophageal carcinoma, which invaded the left main bronchus, underwent chemo-radiation therapy (the combination of systemic chemotherapy of 5-FU/CDDP and external radiation therapy) from January 2004. After the therapy, although the imaging showed a downstaging of esophageal carcinoma, a severe esophageal stricture appeared with ingestion defective. So hyper-alimentation was performed. After the state of nutrition was improved, esophagectomy was performed on March 2004 without a complication. Histopathological study revealed that no viable cells remained. Nine months after esophagectomy, chest CT scan revealed that a solitary pulmonary tumor appeared in S6 of the right. The solitary tumor enlarged gradually. On August 2005, a surgical resection for the solitary pulmonary tumor was performed. Histopathologically, the lesion was compatible for metastasis from esophageal carcinoma. The patient is alive without recurrence more than 23 months after the last surgery.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Surgery, Fujisaki Hospital.
authors.forename: Shigeru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fujisaki
authors.forename: Motoi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takashina
authors.forename: Ryouichi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tomita
authors.forename: Tadatoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takayama
authors.forename: Kazumitsu
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ohmori
authors.forename: Junji
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tomiyama
authors.forename: Kazuyuki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Oyama
mesh_terms: D001980:Bronchi / Q000187:drug effects / Q000528:radiation effects / Q000601:surgery*; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed