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Positron emission tomography-computed tomography. Arrows demonstrate a hypermetabolic area at the oesophageal/cardia junction through a (A) frontal plane and (B) transverse plane.
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HTx, gastroscopic examination following two months of suffering from dysphagia revealed a 4.5 cm tumour in cardia/distal section of oesophagus. Histological biopsy revealed adenocarcinoma, T3N2M0, spreading to the surrounding blood vessels and five out of 14 lymph nodes (Fig. 1, Fig. 2).