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case_images: The Positron emission tomography-computed tomography showed a large hyper metabolic soft tissue mass in the mid-esophagus (T4-T7) with significant proximal dilation.
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case_images: The Positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET CT) of the chest showed a large hyper metabolic soft tissue mass in the mid-esophagus (T4-T7) with significant proximal dilation (Figure 1), which is likely a primary tumor site, and a F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) avid lymph node in the left perilesional area (regional metastasis), but no hyper metabolic metastases in the liver, spleen, or adrenal glands.
case_images: Enhanced chest computed tomography coronal scan reveal a necrotic nodal mass displaced left lobe of the thyroid gland to the contralateral side and lateral displacement of the trachea and cervical esophagus.
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case_images: It also reported a circumferential mural thickening seen involving the mid-esophagus resulting in the proximal dilation confirming the primary tumor site (Figure 2).