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Diffuse pagetoid squamous cell carcinoma in situ of the esophagus: a case report.
Cancer - 15 May 1997
Chu P, Stagias J, West A B, Traube M
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BACKGROUND: In Western countries, esophageal squamous cell carcinoma is usually advanced at presentation and is rarely diagnosed in situ. The authors studied an in situ squamous cell carcinoma that occupied the entire mucosa of a 9 cm length of esophagus, causing dysphagia for solid food in a woman aged 68 years. METHODS: The esophagectomy specimen contained a circumferential region of depressed tan mucosa in the...
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