Persistent cough: An unexpected diagnosis
Esophageal cancer is the eighth most common cancer and the sixth most common cause of cancer death globally. Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) accounts for 70%–90% of esophageal cancers worldwide, 5% are adenocarcinoma, and 5% represent rare malignancies and metastases from other organs. We...
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| author | Suman K Panda Bhagyalakshmi Satyanarayan Satish K Prasad Binu Koshy |
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| description | Esophageal cancer is the eighth most common cancer and the sixth most common cause of cancer death globally. Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) accounts for 70%–90% of esophageal cancers worldwide, 5% are adenocarcinoma, and 5% represent rare malignancies and metastases from other organs. We present a case where a 54-year-old lady, with multiple readmissions for persistent dry cough and respiratory symptoms, turns out to be an esophageal malignancy. CECT thorax revealed an enhancing wall thickening of the esophagus with paraoesophageal fat stranding, mediastinal lymphadenopathy, and subsegmental right lobe atelectasis, suggestive of a probable esophageal malignancy. An upper gastrointestinal endoscopy showed a circumferential esophageal growth which on biopsy and histopathological examination turned out to be a moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f2ea8d8e458644488eaade3e6af242042022-12-21T20:35:46ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care2249-48632020-01-01952548255110.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_41_20Persistent cough: An unexpected diagnosisSuman K PandaBhagyalakshmi SatyanarayanSatish K PrasadBinu KoshyEsophageal cancer is the eighth most common cancer and the sixth most common cause of cancer death globally. Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) accounts for 70%–90% of esophageal cancers worldwide, 5% are adenocarcinoma, and 5% represent rare malignancies and metastases from other organs. We present a case where a 54-year-old lady, with multiple readmissions for persistent dry cough and respiratory symptoms, turns out to be an esophageal malignancy. CECT thorax revealed an enhancing wall thickening of the esophagus with paraoesophageal fat stranding, mediastinal lymphadenopathy, and subsegmental right lobe atelectasis, suggestive of a probable esophageal malignancy. An upper gastrointestinal endoscopy showed a circumferential esophageal growth which on biopsy and histopathological examination turned out to be a moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus.http://www.jfmpc.com/article.asp?issn=2249-4863;year=2020;volume=9;issue=5;spage=2548;epage=2551;aulast=Pandachronic coughsquamous cell carcinoma of esophagus |
| spellingShingle | Suman K Panda Bhagyalakshmi Satyanarayan Satish K Prasad Binu Koshy Persistent cough: An unexpected diagnosis Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care chronic cough squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus |
| title | Persistent cough: An unexpected diagnosis |
| title_full | Persistent cough: An unexpected diagnosis |
| title_fullStr | Persistent cough: An unexpected diagnosis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Persistent cough: An unexpected diagnosis |
| title_short | Persistent cough: An unexpected diagnosis |
| title_sort | persistent cough an unexpected diagnosis |
| topic | chronic cough squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus |
| url | http://www.jfmpc.com/article.asp?issn=2249-4863;year=2020;volume=9;issue=5;spage=2548;epage=2551;aulast=Panda |
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