1983 Volume 25 Issue 8 Pages 1211-1216_1
A 44-year old woman visited our clinic because of progressing dysphagia on May 1981. Endoscopic study revealed a broad-based, about 3cm long tumor in the middle esophagus. Four months later, the tumor had grown upto 10cm long with a narrow stalk . Esophagotomy and gastroesophagostomy was done, its histological features resembled those of sarcoma, being not likely to fibrosarcoma, myosarcoma, etc. Metastasis to the regional lymphonodes could not be found, and squamous cell carcinoma (in situ) was seen in the vicinity of the tumor. According to these findings, we diagnosed it as pseudosarcoma of the esophagus, first mentioned by Stout & Lattes (1957). Pseudosarcoma of the esophagus is very rare tumor and only 25 cases have been reported since 1957, when Stout & Lattes proposed this clinical entity. She was well in January 1983 (15months after operation).
