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88988

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1979-10-24
pubmed:abstractText
A series of 105 patients with dysphagia due to inoperable carcinoma of the oesophagus or cardia of the stomach, and 11 patients with dysphagia secondary to malignant medistinal nodes, was treated by intubation with a Celestin tube. The hospital mortality was high but 81 patients left hospital and 29 were still alive at 6 months. The prognosis for those with dysphagia due to malignant posterior mediastinal nodes was very poor, with no survivors at 6 months. Oesophageal perforation was a serious operative complication, with a hospital mortality of 83 per cent. Chest and wound infections were the most common postoperative complications occurring in 28 and 20 per cent of the patients, respectively. The restoration of swallowing was satisfactory in the majority of survivors although readmission with a blocked or displaced tube was not uncommon.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0007-1323
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
66
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
419-21
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1979
pubmed:articleTitle
The Celestin tube in the palliation of carcinoma of the oesophagus and cardia.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article