Esophagectomy for metastatic carcinoma of the esophagus from lung cancer

Abstract

A patient with metastatic carcinoma of the esophagus from lung cancer is reported. The patient was a 54‐year‐old woman who underwent a left lower lobectomy for lung cancer 5 years previously. The authors performed a thoracic esophagectomy, dissection of mediastinal lymph nodes, and reconstruction of the esophagus; the surgery was followed by chemotherapy. Because the histologic pattern of the esophageal tumor was similar to that of lung cancer and mucosal involvement was not seen, the esophageal tumor was interpreted to be a metastasis from lung cancer. The patient is well without recurrence of disease 23 months after operation. This is the first report of a successful esophagectomy for metastatic carcinoma of the esophagus from lung cancer.

Esophageal metastasis from endometrial adenocarcinoma: a case report and literature review

“…Shimada and colleagues advocated the resection of solitary metastatic esophageal lesions from breast cancer, and the patient achieved local control with a disease-free interval of approximately 5 years (17). Oka et al also reported a case without recurrence 23 months after resection of a metastatic esophageal lesion from primary lung cancer (18). The patient in our case received chemotherapy and apatinib for molecular targeted therapy without surgery, due to multiple enlarged lymph nodes in the retroperitoneum and pelvic cavity.…”

Transhiatal esophagogastrectomy for an isolated ovarian cancer metastasis to the esophagus

“…6 Fujii and colleagues 6 have advocated the resection of solitary breast cancer metastases followed by chemotherapy when local control may be achieved, and when the disease-free interval has been long, indicative of a slow-growing primary tumor. Oka and associates 7 reported on resection of a metastasis from a lung cancer primary after a latency period of 5 years; the patient remained without recurrence 23 months after resection. Mizobuchi and colleagues 2 reported on 3 cases of esophagectomy, including the one previous patient with an ovarian cancer metastasis; longterm survivals of 4 and 14 years were achieved in patients in which the disease-free intervals had been 7 and 16 years, respectively.…”

“…[1][2][3] Multimodality treatment, including chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgical intervention, has proved to improve the results in terms of disease-free and overall survival, 4-6 despite a major postoperative morbidity. 7 Pneumoencephalus is a rare complication of important cranial trauma 8 or neurosurgery, 9 but to our knowledge, it was never reported after thoracic surgery. We report a case of massive pneumoencephalus appearing late after an en bloc upper right lobectomy for lung cancer in a patient who previously underwent chemoradiotherapy.…”

Transhiatal esophagogastrectomy for an isolated ovarian cancer metastasis to the esophagus

“…[1][2][3] Multimodality treatment, including chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgical intervention, has proved to improve the results in terms of disease-free and overall survival, [4][5][6] despite a major postoperative morbidity. 7 Pneumoencephalus is a rare complication of important cranial trauma 8 or neurosurgery, 9 but to our knowledge, it was never reported after thoracic surgery. We report a case of massive pneumoencephalus appearing late after an en bloc upper right lobectomy for lung cancer in a patient who previously underwent chemoradiotherapy.…”