CASE REPORT:A 39-year-old woman with no significant medical history presented to her primary care physician complaining of worsening dysphagia to solids for 1 year. She denied difficulty with swallowing liquids. The patient also reported a 12-pound weight loss over several weeks. Physical examination and routine blood tests were unremarkable. The patient underwent EGD, revealing a bilobed subepithelial lesion in the proximal esophagus 21 cm from the incisors (Fig. 1). The lesion was soft and compressible when probed with the tip of a closed biopsy forceps. It caused external compression that partially obstructed the esophagus but could be easily traversed with a standard gastroscope.
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