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It is always with hesitation that one reports any sort of medical rarity, lest it be proved later that inadequate search of the literature has caused failure to discover that the supposed curiosity has been previously observed.
Nevertheless, I should like to report an instance of osteochondroma in the esophagus of a 74 year old man.
Benign tumors of the esophagus are rare. E. Paterson in 1932, after careful search of the literature, found only 61 cases. According to Chevalier Jackson, who certainly has the most experience with and knowledge of diseases of the esophagus, "The case records of the bronchoscopy clinics of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia show histories of the following benign tumors in which the esophageal walls were involved: granuloma, edematous polypi, papilloma, keloid, fibroma, adenoma, lipoma, myoma, myxoma, angioma, varix, hematoma, and cystic growths." More than half of these growths were polypi, papillomas and leiomyomas.
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