Weekly Chest CasesArchive of Old Cases

Case No : 528 Date 2007-12-10

  • Courtesy of Jung Im Jung, MD. / St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Korea.
  • Age/Sex 62 / F
  • Chief ComplaintSwallowing difficulty
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Diagnosis With Brief Discussion

Diagnosis
Esophageal Leiomyoma
Radiologic Findings
Chest CT show eccentrically lying smooth marginated mass in right lateral wall of upper esophagus. Attenuation of mass is indistinct to esophageal muscle.
Differential diagnoses include esophageal leiomyoma, esophageal cancer and other rare benign esophageal tumors.
Histopathology of the mass is comprised of bundles of interlacing smooth muscle cells, consistent with leiomyoma (H-E, x200).
Brief Review
Please refer to
Case 61, Case 303,
References
Keywords
Esophagus, Benign tumor,

No. of Applicants : 38

▶ Correct Answer : 2/38,  5.3%
  • - Yongsan Hospital, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University, Korea Jae Seung Seo
  • - CHU Grenoble, France Bing Fabrice
▶ Correct Answer as Differential Diagnosis : 12/38,  31.6%
  • - Shiga University of Medical, Japan Norihisa Nitta
  • - IRSA, La Rochelle, France Denis Chabassiere
  • - Asan Medical Center, Korea Eun Jin Chae
  • - Armed Forces ChunCheon Hospital (AFCC), Korea Chae Hun Lim
  • - Hospital Sotiria, Athens, Greece Vasilios Tzilas
  • - Homs National Hospital, Homs - Syria Rami Abou Zalaf
  • - Annemasse, Polyclinique De Savoie, France Gay-Depassier Philippe
  • - Annecy hospital, France Gilles Genin
  • - Saga Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Japan Ryoko Egashira
  • - IRSA La Rochelle, France Jean-Luc BIGOT
  • - Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida, USA N.B.S. Mani
  • - Nassau, Bahamas Trupti Dabholkar
▶ Semi-Correct Answer : 12/38,  31.6%
  • - Registrar in Radiology, UHL NHS Trust, UK A. Donuru
  • - Dept. of Radiodiagnosis and Imaging, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India Ram Prakash Galwa
  • - Dept. of radiology, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital, Korea Bae Geun Oh
  • - Regional Imaging Riverina, Australia Rashid Hashmi
  • - Osaka University, Japan Osamu Honda
  • - Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun Turkey Cetin Celenk
  • - CHRU Lille hopital calmette, France Toledano Manuel
  • - Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Chai-Fu Tsai
  • - Pittwater Radiology, Australia Julie Arora
  • - Armidale Radiology, Australia Saurabh Khandelwal
  • - Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital, Korea Eil Seong Lee
  • - E-Da Hospital, Taiwan Yu-Feng Wei
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