A Rare Case of Primary Small Cell Carcinoma of Esophagus.

Primary small cell carcinoma of the esophagus is a rare, highly aggressive disease with a poor prognosis. A definitive diagnosis is made by histopathological study. As the disease is usually metastatic, palliative chemoradiotherapy is the usual treatment. We present a case of a 57-year-old female presenting with dysphagia. The patient underwent imaging studies showing the growth at the gastro-esophageal junction, with extensive abdominal lymph node metastasis and liver and lung metastasis. Biopsy was suggestive of small cell carcinoma of the esophagus. The patient underwent a feeding jejunostomy and was planned for chemoradiotherapy. Primary small cell carcinoma of the esophagus is an infrequent entity. As the disease is usually diagnosed at a later stage, the prognosis is inferior and abysmal. Copyright © 2021, Das et al.

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Snehasis Das, Naveen Kumar Gaur, Oseen Shaikh, Gopal Balasubramanian, Sreerekha Jinkala. A Rare Case of Primary Small Cell Carcinoma of Esophagus. Cureus. 2021 Aug;13(8):e17190

PMID: 34540420

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