[Palliative resection of the esophagus in cancer]

The clinico-morphological analysis of patients subjected to resection of the esophagus for cancer has shown palliative operations to be fulfilled in 26,9% of cases. Among the causes the first place is occupied by operations inadequate to the local, then metastatic and lastly intraorganic spread of tumor. The analysis of remote results shows little efficiency of such interventions and their expediency.