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Peritoneal carcinomatosis as a pathway of metastatic dissemination in a patient with gastroesophageal junction cancer: case report and review

The oesophageal adenocarcinoma is an increasing pathology in the last decade, predominantly in the western population. A characteristic of esophageal cancer (EC) and esophageal-gastric junction cancer (EGJC) is the high percent of metastatic disease at the time of diagnosis one of the main causes of death in these patients. The present case is about a 78-year-old man, diagnosed with Barrett's esophagus with high-grade dysplasia and stenosis of distal third of esophagus, during surgery we found peritoneal carcinomatosis with implants in gut and no resectably disease.