Esophageal Cancers: A Clinicopathologic and Immunohistochemical Study of 223 Cases

The author reviewed 950 cases of consecutive esophageal biopsies in the last 15 years in out pathology laboratory of our hospital. There were 223 malignant lesions (23.5%). The number and frequency (percentages) were as follows: 54 mild dysplasia (5.7%), 30 moderate dyplasia (3.2%), 32 severe dysplasia (3.4%), 13 carcinoma in situ (1.4%), 71 squamous cell carcinoma (7.5%), 7 primary adenocarcinoma (0.7%), 1 primary signet ring cell carcinoma (0.1%), 4 primary small cell carcinoma (0.4%), 2 primary amelanotic malignant melanoma (0.2%), 1 primary undifferentiated sarcoma (0.1%), 7 gastric cancer invasion (0.7%), and 1 primary adenoid cystic carcinoma (0.1%). In this article, the clinical, histopathologic and immunohistochemical features of these esophageal cancers were described.