title: Esophageal fibrovascular polyp removed by cervical esophagotomy.
abstract: We report a case of esophageal fibrovascular polyp (FVP) removed by cervical esophagotomy. The patient was a 74-year-old man in whom an intraesophageal mass was detected by a chest CT examination during a complete medical check-up. An upper gastrointestinal series showed a large, pedunculated, cervical esophageal mass for which our preoperative diagnosis was a FVP. We studied its features, as well as removal procedures in 45 patients in the literature. Most patients had marked symptoms, but ours had no complaints, and so this case may be a rare one. Various removal procedures were reported, but thoracotomy and esophagectomy are considered to be the inappropriate procedures since FVP is a benign disorder.
authors.affiliation: Fourth Department of Surgery, Tokyo Medical University Ibaraki Medical Center, Japan. h-ubu@tokyo-med.ac.jp
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ubukata
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakachi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kasuga
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nagata
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Konishi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Goto
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Nakada
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tabuchi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D016629:Esophagectomy / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011127:Polyps / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D011859:Radiography