Summary
This report deals with a “collision-tumour” in the gastric cardia of a 52-year-old male patient:
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High-seated tubular adenocarcinoma of the stomach invading the terminal esophagus (ascension);
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mature, slightly cornifying squamous cell carcinoma of the terminal esophagus (antrum cardiacum) with invasion of the tubular adenocarcinoma (descension).
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Wanke, M. Collision-tumour of the cardia. Virchows Arch. Abt. A Path. Anat. 357, 81–86 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00548218
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