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Adenocarcinoma arising in an oesophageal colonic interposition graft

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

S. J. Lee*
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, The Medical School, University of Birmingham.
C. B. Koay
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.
H. Thompson
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, The Medical School, University of Birmingham.
A. R. Nicolaides
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.
A. R. Das Gupta
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.
*
Dr S. J. Lee, M.D., M.R.C.Path., Department of Pathology, Stopford Building, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT.

Abstract

This case report describes the rare complication of an adenocarcinoma developing in a colonic interposition graft 20 years following surgical resection of a postcricoid squamous carcinoma. A free jejunal graft was used for further oesophageal reconstruction following resection of the colonic graft.

Type
Pathology in Focus
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1994

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Footnotes

This case was presented at the British Society of Gastroenterology, Pathology section, at Sheffield University, 26 March 1992.

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