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This case report describes a patient with a rare form of ectopic sebaceous glands. The patient was a 53-year-old woman complaining of prolapse of a polyp through the anus who was admitted for polypectomy of the rectal polyp. After polypectomy, esophagogastroduodenoscopy was performed to detect other lesions. Although she had no symptoms from an upper gastrointestinal series, such as dysphagia, heartburn, or epigastric pain, multiple yellow rounded elevated lesions arranged in rows, 0.5 mm in diameter and more than 100 in number were observed in the middle and lower esophagus. Histological examination of the biopsied specimens taken from the lesions endoscopically revealed a structure with the characteristics of a sebaceous gland including an excretory duct.
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Hoshika, K., Inoue, S., Mizuno, M. et al. Endoscopic detection of ectopic multiple minute sebaceous glands in the esophagus. Digest Dis Sci 40, 287–290 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02065411
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