Esophagus lyomyoma diagnosed with convex endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS)

Paul Zarogoulidis; Stella Laskou; Athanasios Katsaounis; Efstathios Pavlidis; Dimitrios Giannakidis; Charilaos Koulouris; Stylianos Mantalovas; Ioanna Kougioumtzi; Nikolaos Katsikogiannis; Fotis Konstantinou; Wolfgang Hohenforst-Schmidt; Haidong Huang; Chong Bai; Alkis Euthimiou; Dimitris Hatzibougas; Iota Fitili; Chrysanthi Sardeli; Aggeliki Rapti; Isaak Kesisoglou; Konstantinos Sapalidis

doi:10.1016/j.rmcr.2018.05.005

Esophagus lyomyoma diagnosed with convex endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS)

Respir Med Case Rep. 2018 May 4:24:95-97. doi: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2018.05.005. eCollection 2018.

Authors

Paul Zarogoulidis^{1

2}, Stella Laskou², Athanasios Katsaounis², Efstathios Pavlidis², Dimitrios Giannakidis², Charilaos Koulouris², Stylianos Mantalovas², Ioanna Kougioumtzi³, Nikolaos Katsikogiannis³, Fotis Konstantinou⁴, Wolfgang Hohenforst-Schmidt⁵, Haidong Huang⁶, Chong Bai⁶, Alkis Euthimiou⁷, Dimitris Hatzibougas⁸, Iota Fitili⁸, Chrysanthi Sardeli⁹, Aggeliki Rapti¹⁰, Isaak Kesisoglou², Konstantinos Sapalidis²

Affiliations

¹ Pulmonary-Oncology Unit, "Theageneio" Cancer Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece.
² 3rd Department of Surgery, "AHEPA" University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Medical School, Thessaloniki, Greece.
³ Surgery Department (NHS), University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece.
⁴ Thoracic Surgery Department, University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece.
⁵ Sana Clinic Group Franken, Department of Cardiology /Pulmonology /Intensive Care /Nephrology, "Hof'' Clinics, University of Erlangen, Hof, Germany.
⁶ Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Changhai Hospital, The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China.
⁷ Gastroenterology Department, "Saint Luke" Private Hospital, Thessaloniki, Panorama, Greece.
⁸ Microdiagnostics, Private Pathology Lab, Thessaloniki, Greece.
⁹ Department of Pharmacology & Clinical Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
¹⁰ Pulmonary Department, "Sotiria" Hospital of Chest Diseases, Athens, Greece.

Abstract

Esophageal lyomyoma are rare benign tumors of the esophagus and they remain usually undiagnosed until local compression symptoms occur in the esophagus. Gastroscopy or esophageal ultrasonography (EUS) are usually the methods of choice for diagnosis. Moreover; surgery is the solution for this entity. In our case we present diagnosis of esophageal lyomyoma using convex probe endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) with a fine needle aspiration of 22G.

Keywords: Biopsy; EBUS; Esophagus; FNA; Lyomyoma.

Publication types

Case Reports