TITLE:
Metastatic Oesophagus Carcinoma Presented with Neck and Arm Pain: A Case Report
AUTHORS:
Özlem Demircioğlu, Berat Meryem Alkan, Fatma Fidan, Aliye Tosun, Selami Akkuş
KEYWORDS:
Oesophageal Carcinoma, Metastasis, Bone Metastasis
JOURNAL NAME:
Case Reports in Clinical Medicine,
Vol.3 No.4,
April
10,
2014
ABSTRACT: Oesophageal carcinoma
is among malignancies with poor prognosis due to the late onset symptoms
related with large submucosal involvement, early lymphatic metastasis and its
multicentric characteristics,
majority of the patients decrease within the first year of diagnosis. However,
bone metastasis is uncommon and reported to be 1% to 14% in autopsy series.
Herein we report a case that was admitted to our outpatient clinics with severe
neck and arm pain as presenting symptoms and diagnosed as metastatic oesophageal carcinoma afterwards.