A case of simple stenosis of the oesophagus, followed by epithelioma / by C. Hilton Fagge.

  • Charles Hilton Fagge
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[1892]
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Credit: A case of simple stenosis of the oesophagus, followed by epithelioma / by C. Hilton Fagge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A CASE of SIMPLE STENOSIS OE THE (ESOPHAGUS, FOLLOWED BY EPITHELIOMA. By C. HILTON FAGrGrE, M.D. Some weeks since, my father, Mr. Fagge, of Hythe, in Kent, placed in my hands for examination a specimen that had been taken from the body of one of his patients who had shortly before died, after suffering from dysphagia for more than forty years. The history of the case appears to me to be of unusual interest; and I have, therefore, gladly availed myself of Mr. Fagge's permission to publish it in these Reports. The specimen itself displays epithelioma of the oesophagus, with ulceration and affection of a lymphatic gland. But below the part which is the seat of cancer the oesophagus is greatly narrowed, and here there is no indication of any, change beyond a simple stenosis. It has, therefore, appeared to me, and to others to whom I have shown the preparation, that the epithelioma has probably been of comparatively recent development, and that the long-standing dysphagia was caused by the narrowing of the cardiac end of the oesophagus. And although this opinion is, perhaps, not entirely beyond the reach of criticism, I have wished to place it prominently before the reader, and I have, therefore, given expression to it in the title which I have chosen for the case, and as a heading to this short communica- tion.
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