Basaloid squamous carcinoma(BSC)is a rare variant of esophageal *** are very few reports of"early"*** we report a case of early BSC with unusual findings by narrowband imaging magnified endoscopy(NBI-ME).A 70-year-old...
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Basaloid squamous carcinoma(BSC)is a rare variant of esophageal *** are very few reports of"early"*** we report a case of early BSC with unusual findings by narrowband imaging magnified endoscopy(NBI-ME).A 70-year-old man with a middle thoracic esophageal tumor was referred to our ***-light endoscopy revealed a reddish depressed lesion 5 mm in diameter having a subepithelial tumor-like prominence with a gentle rising ***-ME revealed irregular loop-shaped microvessels coexistent with thick irregularly branched non-looped *** staining revealed a pale brown *** performed endoscopic submucosal dissection for diagnostic *** examination showed the proliferation of basal cell-like hyperchromatic tumor cells in the lamina propria and with slight invasion into the submucosa at a depth of 320μ*** tumor cells formed solid nests and microcystic structures,containing an Alcian blue-positive mucoid *** surface was covered with squamous epithelium without cellular *** vessels were observed in the intra-epithelial papilla and thick vessels were observed around the solid nests beneath the *** on these findings together,we diagnosed the lesion as *** this case,the NBI-ME findings differed from those of typical squamous cell carcinoma in that both non-invasive cancer-like irregular loop-shaped microvessels coexisted with massively invasive cancerlike thick non-looped *** speculate that the looped and non-looped vessels observed by NBI-ME histologically corresponded to thin vessels in the intraepithelial papilla and thick vessels around the tumor nests,*** NBI-ME findings might be a feature of early esophageal BSC.
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