CASE REPORT
Year : 2015  |  Volume : 8  |  Issue : 3  |  Page : 384-386

A rare case of giant diffuse esophageal leiomyomatosis


1 Department of Surgery, Shrimati Kashibai Navale Medical College and General Hospital, Narhe, Pune, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
2 Department of Pathology, Shrimati Kashibai Navale Medical College and General Hospital, Narhe, Pune, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Correspondence Address:
Siddhi Gaurish Sinai Khandeparkar
Shrimati Kashibai Navale Medical College and General Hospital, Narhe, Pune, Mumbai - 411 041, Maharashtra
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0975-2870.157095

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Diffuse esophageal leiomyomatosis is a rare hamartomatous disorder characterized by proliferation of smooth muscle cells in the esophageal wall causing circumferential thickening. Its incidence is essentially unknown with very few documented cases. It usually occurs in young adults and is found to be associated with Alport's syndrome. Here, we report this unusual entity in a 22-year-old female presenting with slowly progressive dysphagia with immunopathological study and brief review of the literature.


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