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Case Reports

Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor Presenting With Esophageal Obstruction and an Inflammatory Syndrome

^a Department of Surgery, Fletcher Allen Health Care/University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
^b Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Fletcher Allen Health Care/University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
^c Department of Pathology, Fletcher Allen Health Care/University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
^d Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, Fletcher Allen Health Care/University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont

Accepted for publication March 21, 2008.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Privette, Fletcher Allen Health Care/University of Vermont (FAHC/UVM), Department of Surgery, 111 Colchester Ave, Burlington, VT 05401 (Email: alicia.privette{at}vtmednet.org).

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor is a rare neoplasm of intermediate malignant potential. Although inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor occurs at multiple anatomic locations, an esophageal lesion is extremely rare. We describe a 43-year-old man who presented with severe dysphagia and an inflammatory syndrome, secondary to esophageal inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor. The patient was treated successfully with esophagectomy and remains disease free at 1 year. This case illustrates the complexities involved in managing a large esophageal myofibroblastic tumor and highlights that esophagectomy, rather than enucleation, should be the treatment of choice.

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