Endoscopic palliative resection of a giant 26-cm esophageal tumor: A case report

Table 1 Reported cases of endoscopic resection of esophageal carcinosarcoma

Case number	Year	Ref.	Sex	Age (yr)	Comorbidity	Endoscopic procedure	Tumor location	Tumor size (cm)	Additional surgery	Adjuvant chemoradiotherapy	Follow-up time (yr)	Recurrence or metastasis
1	2004	Pesenti et al[21]	Male	73	Cardiac dysfunction	Endoscopic mucosal resection	Cervical esophagus	3 × 7	No	Yes	2.5	No
2	2009	Ji et al[6]	Male	61	None	Endoscopic polypectomy	25-30 cm from the incisors	5 × 3 × 3	No	No	1.5	No
3	2013	Xu et al[22]	Male	80	Gastrointestinal bleeding and severe anemia	Endoscopic mucosal resection	30 cm from the incisors, gastric antrum	4 × 2.5 × 1.5	No	No	0.5	NA
4	2018	Yabuuchi et al[23]	Female	77	None	Endoscopic submucosal dissection	Middle thoracic esophagus	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
5	2020	Present paper	Male	55	None	Endoscopic palliative resection	22-45 cm from the incisors	26 × 5 × 4	Yes	Yes	2	No

NA: Not applicable.