The value of endoscopic ultrasonography for management of esophageal leiomyoma / 中华消化杂志

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Objective To investigate clinical value of endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) on diagnosis and treatment of esophageal leiomyoma.Methods The clinical feature of patients diagnosed as esophageal leiomyoma by EUS was analyzed.All patients underwent conventional gastroscopy and EUS examination as well as blood test.The EUS findings were compared with histopatholoical diagnosis for endoscopically or surgically resected specimens.All patients were followed-up with EUS for 14.3 months (range 2-36 months) for leiomyoma recurrence.Results A total of 191 patients were diagnosed with esophageal leiomyomas by EUS.Clinical manifestation,serum examination,conventional gastroscopy and spiral CT were not helpful for diagnosing esophageal leiomyoma,One hundred and sixteen patients with esophageal leiomyomas were treated by either endoscopic resection (111 cases) or surgical excision (5 cases).of which,101 resected specimens were pathologically confirmed as leiomyomas.The diagnostic accuracy of EUS was 87%.The follow-up study showed that there was no change of leiomyomas in 75 untreated patients and no recurrence was found in 116 surgically treated patients.Conclusion Esophageal leiomyoma is a benign tumor,EUS plays a very important role in diagnosis and treatment of this disease.