ESOPHAGEAL LEIOMYOMA

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Abstract
Benign tumors of the esophagus are rare and usually are encountered as incidental findings at autopsy. Moersch and Harrington1have stated that of 11,000 patients complaining of dysphagia only 15 had benign esophageal tumors as a basis for their complaint. In a review of 7,459 necropsies they observed 44 of these tumors. In 6,001 postmortem examinations at the University of Chicago 11 benign esophageal tumors have been found. Case reports and reviews concerning approximately 200 such tumors have been published.2A wide variety of benign neoplasms occur in the esophagus: adenoma,3papilloma,4polyp,5fibroma,6myxofibroma,7neurofibroma,8hemangioma,9lipoma,10ostechondroma11and the most frequent form, myoma.12 There have been few reports on the surgical treatment of benign esophageal tumors. This is due not only to the paucity of these lesions but also to the relatively recent advance of surgery to a

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