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  • Title: [Routine endoscopy of the esophagus in buccal, pharyngeal and laryngeal cancers].
    Author: Andrieu-Guitancourt J, Brossard-Legrand M, Happich JL, Lamy JM.
    Journal: Ann Otolaryngol Chir Cervicofac; 1975 Dec; 92(12):659-66. PubMed ID: 1225106.
    Abstract:
    We practiced a systematic endoscopy of the upper part of the aero-digestive tract on 160 patients suffering from a cancer in the mouth, the pharynx and the upper part of the larynx. This unit, going from the mouth to the cardia does really exist: it has the same epithelial coating, the same function and is liable to suffer the same damages. It is the seat of many well-known cancerous localizations that always need to be searched for on principle when face to face with any cancer. The endoscopic examination so conceived allowed the authors to find a cancerous association on the very level of the upper sero-digestive tract among 14 per cent of the patients; 4 out of these 14 per cent having oesophageal damages impossible to detect clinically on one hand, and often radiologically on the other hand. Morever, 3 out of 7 of lesions were tiny: from 1 to 3 millimetres, extending the limits of the diagnosis of the cancer of the aesophagus and perhaps leaving better therapeutic possibilities.
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