A rare primary small cell cancer of the esophagus
Kämpfe, U.; Gärtner, C.; Widdig, K.; Heyne, S.
Zeitschrift für die Gesamte Innere Medizin und ihre Grenzgebiete 44(12): 373-375
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-2542 PMID: 2474912 Document Number: 338550
The parvicellular carcinomas have their matrix in the neurosecretory (enterochromaffin) cells of Kultschitzky's type of the APUD-system. While in about 20% of the patients with a bronchial carcinoma a parvicellular bronchial carcinoma appears, extrapulmonary parvicellular organ carcinomas are very rarely observed. Up to 1984 altogether 72 patients with a parvicellular carcinoma of the oesophagus were world-wide registered. It is reported on an own observation of a female patient with a parvicellular carcinoma of the oesophagus and it is referred to the appearance of extrapulmonary parvicellular carcinomas. According to the present state of knowledge the extrapulmonary parvicellular carcinomas should be treated according to the therapy concepts of parvicellular bronchial carcinomas.