Oesophageal Carcinoma: An Atypical Presentation – A Case Report.
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2013-10
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Abstract
Oesophageal Carcinoma presenting as symptoms of acute respiratory distress is
extremely rare. Hence diagnosis may be difficult as all the initial investigations are
focused towards finding a respiratory cause. In this paper the authors report a 62 year
old Caucasian male who presented with acute dyspnoea with no respiratory history but
was subsequently discovered to have an oesophageal carcinoma as the likely underlying
cause. Subsequent investigations revealed it to be a stage IB squamous cell midoesophageal
carcinoma that was treated by radiotherapy. It is important when evaluating
a patient with acute respiratory symptoms but no previous respiratory history to consider
alternative pathologies related to surrounding anatomical structures also.
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Oesophageal carcinoma, dyspnoea
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Shambhu S, Cheshire C M. Oesophageal Carcinoma: An Atypical Presentation – A Case Report. British Journal of Medicine and Medical Research. 2013 Oct-Dec; 3(4): 1688-1691.