title: Giant esophageal fibrovascular polyp with clinical behaviour of inflammatory pseudotumor: a case report and the literature review.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Esophageal fibrovascular polyps are rare, benign, intraluminal, submucosal tumor-like lesions, characterized by pedunculated masses which can demonstrate enormous growth. The most frequent symptoms are dysphagia, vomiting and weight loss. Fibrovascular polyps with long stalks can regurgitate into the airways and cause asphyxia. Esophageal inflammatory pseudotumor is extremely rare lesion accompanied with various systemic manifestations as fever, anemia and thrombocytosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  We presented a 29-year-old man complaining of a long-lasting fever and dysphagia. He was found to have huge pedunculated submucosal tumor of esophagus, surgically completely resected. Histopathological examination showed that this giant tumor, 24 x 9 x 6 cm, was a fibrovascular polyp. The postoperative course was uneventful. The preoperative fever, anemia and thrombocytosis disappeared and did not recur in the postoperative course.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We reported a patient with giant esophageal pedunculated tumor with clinical manifestations of inflammatory pseudotumor and histopathological picture of fibrovascular polyp, that we have not found described in the literature before.
authors.forename: Vladimir
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Cuk
authors.forename: Slavica
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Knezević-Usaj
authors.forename: Mile
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ignjatović
authors.forename: Zoran
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Kostić
authors.forename: Dino
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tarabar
authors.forename: Bojan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kovacević
authors.forename: Milena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sćepanović
authors.forename: Damjan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Slavković
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004935:Esophageal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006104:Granuloma, Plasma Cell / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011127:Polyps / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery