[Malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the esophagus]

The patient aged 60 underwent extirpation of the thoracic oesophagus followed by esophagogastroplasty and splenectomy. There was a polyp-like neoplasm 12 cm long and 3 cm in diameter on a crus originating from the esophageal wall and diagnosed histologically as a malignant fibrous histiocytoma infiltrating muscular coat at the site of the crus. The patient died of suppurative mediastinitis 8 days later.