TY - JOUR
AU - Isono, Kaichi
AB - 538 Surg Today H. Sashiyama et al.: Diffuse Severe Esophagitis Jpn J Surg (1998) 28:538–541 Case Reports Benign Esophageal Stricture Caused by Diffuse Severe Esophagitis Presenting as Ascending Fibrosis: Report of a Case Hiroshi Sashiyama, Hiromasa Matsubara, Yoshio Koide, Hisahiro Matsubara, Takenori Ochiai, and Kaichi Isono Second Department of Surgery, Chiba University School of Medicine, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260, Japan Abstract: A 46-year-old Japanese man was referred to our the term diffuse severe esophagitis to describe ascending hospital for treatment of an esophageal stricture. Esophageal fibrosis as a specific entity, and characterized the dis- cancer was suspected after detailed investigations, and a right eases in detail. In this paper, we report a case of esoph- transthoracic esophagectomy was performed. The resected ageal stricture with diffuse severe esophagitis, discuss its specimen showed only nonspecific esophagitis with severe fi- characteristics, and review the literature on this unusual brous thickening in the submucosa, but no evidence of malig- subject. nancy. Between 1906 and 1993, only 19 similar cases of benign esophageal strictures with fibrous thickening, excluding con- genital and iatrogenic strictures, have been reported in Japan. Case Report These lesions occurred in the middle to lower third of the esophagus in 
TI - Benign Esophageal Stricture Caused by Diffuse Severe Esophagitis Presenting as Ascending Fibrosis: Report of a Case
JF - Surgery Today
DO - 10.1007/s005950050179
DA - 1998-04-23
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/benign-esophageal-stricture-caused-by-diffuse-severe-esophagitis-zSaei6GLpw
SP - 538
EP - 541
VL - 28
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -