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Palliative treatment of esophagogastric cancer by laser photocoagulation
1Department of Gastroenterology, National Cancer Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Neoplasma
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
Over a 7-year period 158 nonsurgical patients with an advanced esophageal cancer were treated by palliation. The initial success rate was 79% and the complications rate was 2.3%. Average improvement duration was 136 days. Tumors were mostly situated in lower and middle part of oesophagus.