[Differential diagnosis of early esophagus cancer: endoscopy]. 1988

M Nishizawa
Tokyo Metropolitan Cancer Detection Center.

Benign lesions such as leukoplakia, solitary varix, hyperkeratosis, heterotopic gastric mucosa, esophagitis, and dysplasia should be discriminated from esophagus cancer, especially from mucosal cancer (ep-cancer, mm cancer). Those benign lesions can be split into three categories. 1. Lesions to be differentiated by ordinary observation. 2. Lesions to be differentiate by the lugol solution. 3. Lesions to be differentiated by biopsy. These benign lesions except for leukoplakia, solitary varix are not stained by lugol solution (as are not cancer lesions), so biopsy is indispensible. Findings of ep cancer and mm cancer are usually very slight and so could be easily missed in ordinary observation. Therefore when we discern suspective lesions almost imperceptive to a naked eye and unstained by lugol solution, or a slightly raised plateau, vague reddening, discoloration or slight unevenness, detection of esophagus cancer at the earliest stage becomes possible. Differential diagnosis also becomes possible.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D008875 Middle Aged An adult aged 45 - 64 years. Middle Age
D009367 Neoplasm Staging Methods which attempt to express in replicable terms the extent of the neoplasm in the patient. Cancer Staging,Staging, Neoplasm,Tumor Staging,TNM Classification,TNM Staging,TNM Staging System,Classification, TNM,Classifications, TNM,Staging System, TNM,Staging Systems, TNM,Staging, Cancer,Staging, TNM,Staging, Tumor,System, TNM Staging,Systems, TNM Staging,TNM Classifications,TNM Staging Systems
D003937 Diagnosis, Differential Determination of which one of two or more diseases or conditions a patient is suffering from by systematically comparing and contrasting results of diagnostic measures. Diagnoses, Differential,Differential Diagnoses,Differential Diagnosis
D004938 Esophageal Neoplasms Tumors or cancer of the ESOPHAGUS. Cancer of Esophagus,Esophageal Cancer,Cancer of the Esophagus,Esophagus Cancer,Esophagus Neoplasm,Neoplasms, Esophageal,Cancer, Esophageal,Cancer, Esophagus,Cancers, Esophageal,Cancers, Esophagus,Esophageal Cancers,Esophageal Neoplasm,Esophagus Cancers,Esophagus Neoplasms,Neoplasm, Esophageal,Neoplasm, Esophagus,Neoplasms, Esophagus
D004945 Esophagoscopy Endoscopic examination, therapy or surgery of the esophagus. Esophagoscopic Surgical Procedures,Surgical Procedures, Esophagoscopic,Esophagoscopic Surgery,Surgery, Esophagoscopic,Esophagoscopic Surgeries,Esophagoscopic Surgical Procedure,Esophagoscopies,Procedure, Esophagoscopic Surgical,Procedures, Esophagoscopic Surgical,Surgeries, Esophagoscopic,Surgical Procedure, Esophagoscopic
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000368 Aged A person 65 years of age or older. For a person older than 79 years, AGED, 80 AND OVER is available. Elderly

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