Dufera Rabira R, Osman Abdallah, Nnamani Ikenna, Tolu-Akinnawo Oluwaremilekun, Smoot Duane
Internal Medicine, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, USA.
Internal Medicine, Meharry Medical College, Nashville , USA.
Cureus. 2023 Jun 2;15(6):e39881. doi: 10.7759/cureus.39881. eCollection 2023 Jun.
Esophageal cancer is a disease with high mortality. This is mainly due to late presentations with nonspecific symptoms. Despite advances in surgery and chemoradiotherapy, it is the eighth most common cancer but the sixth deadliest. It is reportedly common in older patients but rare in young ones. In this case report, we present a 29-year-old male patient with no prior medical condition who presented with hematemesis to the emergency unit and was found to have esophageal cancer with the biopsy. Not only is esophageal cancer rare in young adults, but hematemesis is a rare symptom in esophageal cancer patients.
食管癌是一种死亡率很高的疾病。这主要是由于出现非特异性症状时已处于疾病晚期。尽管手术及放化疗取得了进展，但食管癌仍是第八大常见癌症，却是第六大致命癌症。据报道，食管癌在老年患者中常见，在年轻患者中罕见。在本病例报告中，我们介绍了一名29岁男性患者，他既往无病史，因呕血到急诊科就诊，经活检发现患有食管癌。食管癌在年轻成年人中不仅罕见，而且呕血在食管癌患者中也是一种罕见症状。
