A case report of cardia carcinoma : Underwent Heller myotomy for Achalasia

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BACKGROUND: One of the risk factors for esophageal adenocarcinoma is achalasia, an esophageal motility disorder that is typically treated surgically through laparotomy or laparoscopic surgery. The risk factors of gastric cardia cancer are also similar to esophageal adenocarcinoma due to the anatomical location of the gastric cardia close to the esophagus. There is currently no clinical evidence that achalching has a correlation with gastric cardia cancer.

CASE SUMMARY: We report the case of an 85-year-old female patient was admitted to our department with dysphagia for 6 months. She underwent a dissecting Heller myotomy for pancreatic achalasia in 2006, with occasional postoperative symptoms of reflux and heartburn. Outpatient upper gastrointestinal imaging was suggestive of cardia cancer, and gastroscopic pathological findings were suggestive of moderately-lowly-differentiated adenocarcinoma. The patient was admitted to the operating room on August 30, 2022 to undergo radical pancreatic cancer surgery plus abdominal adhesion release, and postoperative review of the upper gastrointestinal imaging showed a patent anastomosis with no spillage, filling of the residual stomach, and duodenal visualization.

CONCLUSION: Postoperative patients with achalasia often have symptoms of reflux, which may be one of the factors for the development of pancreatic cancer in this patient, thus requiring clinicians to pay more attention to the use of antireflux procedures in the surgical treatment of pancreatic achalasia. And the choice of which modality to perform surgery in patients with previous surgical history is also one of the points to be discussed.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:103

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Medicine - 103(2024), 4 vom: 26. Jan., Seite e36924

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wen, Lin-Qi [VerfasserIn]
Wei, Da-Wei [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 05.02.2024

Date Revised 06.02.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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10.1097/MD.0000000000036924

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NLM367679779