A laterally-spreading tumor in a colonic interposition treated by endoscopic submucosal dissection

World J Gastroenterol. 2010 Jan 21;16(3):392-4. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v16.i3.392.

Abstract

Herein we describe an early colonic carcinoma which developed in a colonic interposition 14 years after surgery for esophageal cancer, which was successfully treated by endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD). An 80-year-old man underwent colonic interposition between the upper esophagus and stomach after surgery for an early esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in 1994. He received a surveillance endoscopy, and a laterally-spreading tumor of granular type, approximately 20 mm in size, was identified in the colonic interposition. An endoscopic biopsy revealed moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma histologically, however, we diagnosed the lesion as an intramucosal carcinoma based on the endoscopic findings. The lesion was safely and completely removed en bloc by ESD using a bipolar knife. Histologically, the lesion was an intramucosal moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma in a tubular adenoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adenocarcinoma / surgery*
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Colonic Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Treatment Outcome