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KMID : 0378019810240100041
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New Medical Journal
1981 Volume.24 No. 10 p.41 ~ p.44
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A Case Report of Esophageal Hemangioma
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Abstract
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The hemangioma of the esophagus is extremely rare.
By Craig A. Foster et al. fewer than 50 cases were reported worldwidely until 1978. The authors experienced a cavernous hemangioma of the esophagus in a 41-year-old Korean woman.
The, patient complained dysphagia and bloody retching in the morning with epigastric discomfortness for 2 months. An upper gastrointestinal series was performed and revealed so-called fork sign and smear effects on the distal half of the esophagus with markedly
dilatation of the lumen. But there revealed no evidence of definite abnormality in the stomach and duodenum. A fiberoptic endoscopic examination showed the findings mimic to esphageal varices on the distal half of the esophagus, such as markedly vascular and mucosal swelling and there revealed no evidence of definite hindrance in passage of the scope into the stomach beyond the cardia.
Operative findings were a large submucosal tumor on the distal half esophagus, and which was confirmed as cavernous hemangioma by microscopic pathologic study. Resection of the diseased esophagus with esophagogastrostomy was done. The patient has remained asymptomatic for 6 months after surgcal treatment.
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