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Carcinosarcoma of the Esophagus
Seock Ah Im, Ki Youl Seo, Hye Young Son, Mi Sung Shin, Doe Young Kim, Soon Nam Lee, Soo Seung Choi, Mi Jung Kim, Sung Sook Kim, Young Guk Lim
Journal of the Korean Cancer Association 1996;28(1): 168-175.
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Abstract

Carcinosarcoma of the esophagus is a rare neoplasm composed of both carcinomatous and sarcomatous area. Usually the carcinomatous component is a squamous cell carcinoma. The histogenesis of the sarcomatous component is still unknown but consider as transformation from carcinomatous portion. We report a case of carcinosarcoma of esophagus in a 65 year-old male patient who was taken radical esophagectomy with lymph node dissection, Microscopically it was composed of squamous cell carcinoma intermingled with sarcomatous component in polypoid portion.

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