Case Report
Small Bowel Obstruction Caused by Small Intestinal Metastasis Secondary to Esophageal Carcinoma
Table 1
Reported cases of small intestinal metastasis from esophageal carcinoma in international literature.
| | No. | Year | Author | Age | Sex | Primary esophageal carcinoma | Metastatic small intestinal tumor | Period until metastasis (months) | Treatment | Survival outcome (time after treatment) | | Location | Histology | Treatment | Symptom | Number of lesions |
| | 1 | 1985 | Wang [7] | 65 | M | Lt | SCC | Ex | Obstruction | 1 | 18 | Res | ND | | 2 | 1996 | Yamada [8] | 56 | M | Mt | SCC | Ex→CRT | Obstruction | 1 | 12 | Res | Dead (3 years) | | 3 | 2005 | Neve [9] | 56 | M | Lt | SCC | Ex→RT | Obstruction
Perforation | 1 | 8 | Res | Alive (8 months) | | 4 | 2005 | Lindenmann [10] | 54 | M | Mt | SCC | Ex→Chemo | Occasionally found | 1 | 0 | Res | Alive (12 months) | | 5 | 2005 | Arulraj [11] | 52 | M | ND | SCC | CRT | Obstruction | 1 | 5 | Res | Dead (4 months) | | 6 | 2009 | Dasari [12] | 42 | M | Lt | AC | Chemo→Ex | Obstruction | 1 | 24 | Res | ND | | 7 | 2018 | Ono [13] | 86 | M | Mt | SCC | None | Perforation | 2 | 0 | Res | Dead (1 month) | | 8 | 2021 | Present case | 60 | M | Lt | SCC | Chemo→Ex | Obstruction | 2 | 14 | Res | Dead (6 months) |
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M: male; Lt: lower thoracic esophagus; Mt: middle thoracic esophagus; SCC: squamous cell carcinoma; AC: adenocarcinoma; Ex: esophagectomy; Res: resection of the small intestine; CRT: chemoradiation therapy; RT: radiation therapy; Chemo: chemotherapy; ND: not described.
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