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Carcinoma of the esophagus and long-term sclerotherapy
P A McCormick1, A Sawyer, N McIntyre
1Academic Department of Medicine, Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine, London.
Endoscopy
|May 1, 1989
Abstract:
We report a case where a chronic non-healing esophageal ulcer which developed following a course of endoscopic sclerotherapy proved to be an esophageal carcinoma. In view of 2 similar previous reports we discuss the possibility that sclerotherapy may act as a carcinogen, and suggest that all such non-healing esophageal ulcers should be biopsied.