Carcinosarcoma of the Thoracic Esophagus That Presented as Focal Ulcerative Lesion

Esophageal carcinosarcoma is a rare malignant tumor composed of both carcinomatous and sarcomatous elements. We report a case of esophageal carcinosarcoma in a 56-year-old woman with dysphagia. Esophageal ulcerative tumors were detected by endoscopy and resected by thoracoscopic esophagectomy. Carcinosarcoma was confirmed by the presence of both carcinomatous and sarcomatous tumor components. On immunohistochemistry, the sarcomatous area was positive for keratin staining, while the sarcomatous area was positive for vimentin staining. The tumor reportedly had a better prognosis than SCC of the esophagus, especially in terms of survival rate. The patient’s disease was classified as ypT3N0M0, ypStage II. No definitive diagnosis was made preoperatively. We report this case along with a review of the literature.

Sarcomatous tumor of the right ovary, removed by laparotomy in the gynecological department at the Mogilev obstetric institution

Unfortunately, we do not yet have accurate statistics of malignant neoplasms of the ovaries. Virkhov, for example, of the opinion that they are quite rare. In Schroeder's 600 cases of neoplasms of the ovaries, there are only 10 cases of malignant, consequently somewhat more than 1%. Wert in relation to ovarian cysts determines the frequency of dense neoplasms in 5%. Spencer Wells initially rose 1.72%, followed by even less 1.2%. Leopold), from a more distant time, there are only 8 cases of malignant neoplasms of the ovaries: 4 cases of Spencer Wlls, of which two were fatal, two cases of Spiegelberg, both were fatal, one case of Buren and one recovered a rural doctor whose patient died of a collapse shortly after the operation. Even if we assume that cases of malignant neoplasms of the ovaries are quite rare, then all the same, judging by the latest reports, it cannot be argued that this rarity would be in such a scale as the authors just cited for a longer time estimate it.