Palliative Endoscopic Treatment of Malignant Esophageal Stenosis Using a Häring Prosthesis
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Digestion
- Vol. 23 (1) , 31-38
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000198707
Abstract
The aim of this work was to analyze the outcome of 78 cases of esophageal cancer for which the endoscopic placement of a Häring prosthesis was chosen as a palliative method of treatment. The average length of hospitalization was 10 days and the average survival time was 90.8 days. The postinsertion mortality rate was 6% and there were 44 complications. The best indications are carcinoma of the lower two thirds of the esophagus, neoplastic mediastinitis and esophageal fistulae.Keywords
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