The Journal of Laryngology & Otology

Table of Contents - January 1994 - Volume 108, Issue 01  

Pathology in Focus

Adenocarcinoma arising in an oesophageal colonic interposition graft

S. J. Leea1 c1, C. B. Koaya2, H. Thompsona1, A. R. Nicolaidesa2 and A. R. Das Guptaa2

a1 Department of Pathology, The Medical School, University of Birmingham.

a2 Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.

Abstract

This case report describes the rare complication of an adenocarcinoma developing in a colonic interposition graft 20 years following surgical resection of a postcricoid squamous carcinoma. A free jejunal graft was used for further oesophageal reconstruction following resection of the colonic graft.

(Accepted August 08 1993)

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Correspondence:

c1 Dr S. J. Lee, M.D., M.R.C.Path., Department of Pathology, Stopford Building, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT.

Footnotes

This case was presented at the British Society of Gastroenterology, Pathology section, at Sheffield University, 26 March 1992.

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