Mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the esophagus [case report]

ABSTRACT

The authors reported a case of mucoepidermoid carcinoma of esophagus, which is a rare primary carcinoma of the esophagus, characterized by a diffuse mixture of squamous and mucin-secreting glandular carcinoma cells. The patient was a 54-year-old man with a five-month history of dysphagia and endoscopic biopsy diagnosis of scc. The patient underwent a curative esophagectomy with a regional lymph node dissection. Histopathologic and histochemical study of specimen showed mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the esophagus