TY - JOUR
T1 - Achalasia of the Esophagus in Association with Renal Cell Carcinoma
AU - Manela, Flavio D.
AU - Quigley, Eamonn M.M.
AU - Paustian, Frederick F.
AU - Taylor, Rodney J.
PY - 1991/12
Y1 - 1991/12
N2 - A case of secondary achalasia due to renal cell carcinoma is presented. The patient presented with typical clinical, radiologic, and manometric features of achalasia, and was found to have a renal cell carcinoma with metastases to lymph nodes in the region of the cardioesophageal junction. Direct esophageal involvement could not be demonstrated, however, Complete symptomatic remission was obtained with a single hydrostatic balloon dilatation of the cardioesophageal junction and was maintained until the patient's death 7 months later, perhaps as a result of regression of paraesophageal nodal metastases following radiotherapy, immunotherapy, and chemotherapy.
AB - A case of secondary achalasia due to renal cell carcinoma is presented. The patient presented with typical clinical, radiologic, and manometric features of achalasia, and was found to have a renal cell carcinoma with metastases to lymph nodes in the region of the cardioesophageal junction. Direct esophageal involvement could not be demonstrated, however, Complete symptomatic remission was obtained with a single hydrostatic balloon dilatation of the cardioesophageal junction and was maintained until the patient's death 7 months later, perhaps as a result of regression of paraesophageal nodal metastases following radiotherapy, immunotherapy, and chemotherapy.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1572-0241.1991.tb06959.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1572-0241.1991.tb06959.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 1962628
AN - SCOPUS:0025786613
VL - 86
SP - 1812
EP - 1816
JO - American Journal of Gastroenterology
JF - American Journal of Gastroenterology
SN - 0002-9270
IS - 12
ER -