A rare cause of the cough: primary small cell carcinoma of esophagus-case report.

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Yekeler E., Koca T., Vural S.

Case reports in medicine, cilt.2012, ss.870783, 2012 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Teknik Not
  • Cilt numarası: 2012
  • Basım Tarihi: 2012
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1155/2012/870783
  • Dergi Adı: Case reports in medicine
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.870783
  • Akdeniz Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

Small cell carcinomas (SCCs) are more often described in

lungs, but rarely laryngeal, pancreatic, stomach, prostatic,

uterine, sweet glands, and esophageal locations are reported

[1, 2]. Esophageal and extrapulmonary small cell Carcinoma

(EPSCC) was described first by McKeown in 1952 [3].

Primary small cell carcinoma of the esophagus (PSCCE)

is a rare, rapidly progressive, and highly metastatic disease

with poor prognosis. The incidence of PSCCE between all

esophageal malignancies is from 0.05 to 2.4% in western

populations, and this rate rises up to 7.6% in Chinese and

Japanese literature [1, 4, 5]. As seen in our case, the cases

with tracheal invasion due to rapid progression of PSCCE,

without the presence of dysphagia in the foreground, admit

to the hospital with the complaint of cough. From this aspect,

we presented a case of extrapulmonary intrathoracic SCC,

because it was both a rare etiology of severe dry cough and

an indicator of rapid progression of PSCCE.