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Giant fibrovascular polyp of the esophagus successfully treated by endoscope-assisted resection

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Fibrovascular polyps of the esophagus are extremely rare. A 52-year-old woman had the sensation of food sticking in her throat for 3 weeks. Examination revealed a polypoid lesion within the esophagus that extended from the pyriform sinus to the distal esophagus above the gastric cardia. With the patient under general anesthesia, the stalk of the lesion was cut through the rigid laryngoscope; however, the tumor could not be retrieved through the mouth. Large biopsies of the lesion were taken. The remaining lesion was later passed in the fecal matter. Pathological findings were consistent with the features of fibrovascular polyps.

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  1. Hidenori Kamiyama

    Present address: Department of Surgery, Ogano Town Hospital, 300 Ogano, Chichibu, Saitama, 368-0105, Japan

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  1. Department of Surgery, Omiya Medical Center, Jichi Medical School, 1-847 Amanuma-cho, Saitama, 330-0834, Japan

    Hidenori Kamiyama, Hirokazu Kiyozaki, Hideki Okamoto, Takayoshi Yoshida & Fumio Konishi

  2. Department of Otolaryngology, Omiya Medical Center, Jichi Medical School, Saitama, Japan

    Yasushi Ohta & Kosuke Ishii

  3. Department of Pathology, Omiya Medical Center, Jichi Medical School, Saitama, Japan

    Shigeki Yamada

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Kamiyama, H., Kiyozaki, H., Okamoto, H. et al. Giant fibrovascular polyp of the esophagus successfully treated by endoscope-assisted resection. Esophagus 2, 151–154 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10388-005-0048-2

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