Palliative endoscopic therapy of esophageal cancer: self-expanding stents

Esophageal cancer is the tenth most common malignancy. Recently, there has been an increase in the incidence of carcinoma of distal esophagus. Unfortunately, early esophageal cancer is commonly asymptomatic and inaccessible to examinstion during regular physical examination. Thus, high percentage of...

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Published inBratislavské lékarské listy Vol. 104; no. 2; p. 93
Main Authors Slezak, P, Majek, J, Kollar, T, Makovnik, P, Mlkvy, P
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Slovakia 2003
Subjects
Endoscopy
Esophageal Neoplasms - diagnosis
Esophageal Neoplasms - therapy
Humans
Palliative Care
Stents
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Summary:Esophageal cancer is the tenth most common malignancy. Recently, there has been an increase in the incidence of carcinoma of distal esophagus. Unfortunately, early esophageal cancer is commonly asymptomatic and inaccessible to examinstion during regular physical examination. Thus, high percentage of patients present with advanced disease at the time of diagnosis. Main symptom are nutritional deficiencies, dysphagia, pressure in the epigastrium and commonly, blood loss. (Tab. 1, Fig. 1, Ref. 4.).
ISSN:0006-9248