Localisation œsophagienne révélatrice d’une maladie de Hodgkin

Abstract

Introduction.– Esophageal involvement in Hodgkin’s disease, commonly known as a belated localization of the advanced forms, has been seldom reported (3 to 5% in post-mortem series and 0.7% in clinical series). Exegesis. – We report the case of a 61-year-old man who had an esophagus localization revealing Hodgkin’s disease stage IV EBb of Ann Arbor classification. The originality of this case was represented by: the revelation mode of the esophageal involvement such as dysphagia and upper gastrointestinal bleeding; the localization at the distal third of the esophagus with contiguous involvement of the gastric fundus; the absence of mediastinal nodes showing the primitive character of the esophageal injury. Conclusion. – This observation incites us to consider Hodgkin’s disease in the list of differential diagnoses of tumoral dysphagia, even if there was no ganglionic and/or visceral localization of the disease.