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Ann Thorac Surg 1985;40:516-518
© 1985 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Acute Thoracic Inlet Obstruction in Achalasia with Adenoid Cystic and Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Bar[image]ur Sigurgeirsson, M.D., Kristinn B. Jóhannsson, M.D.*, Sverrir Har[image]arson, M.D., Páll Torfi Onundarson, M.D., Gudmundur Thorgeirsson, M.D., Ph.D.

From the Departments of Medicine, Surgery, and Pathology, University Hospital, Landspitalinn, Reykjavik, Iceland

Accepted for publication January 30, 1985.

* Address reprint requests to Dr. Johannsson, Department of Surgery, University Hospital, Landspitalinn, Reykjavik, Iceland

Respiratory symptoms due to compression of the trachea by the dilated esophagus in achalasia are extremely rare. A patient is presented whose respiratory manifestations included engorged neck veins and a neck swelling that fluctuated with respiration. He also had two malignant tumors in his dilated esophagus, a squamous cell carcinoma and an adenoid cystic carcinoma.






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