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  • Title: [The endoesophageal intubation--a favourable palliative operation of malignant stenoses in the esophagus-cardia-region? (author's transl)].
    Author: Beck R, Kienzle HF, Staemmler-Kienzle S, Fux HD.
    Journal: Langenbecks Arch Chir; 1982; 356(3):167-73. PubMed ID: 6175870.
    Abstract:
    131 patients with malignant stenoses in the esophagus-cardia-region were palliatively treated with an endoprosthesis. The procedure in these patients of an average age of 65.5 years is described. The average in patient time is 22 days. The postoperative mortality is 22.9%. The complications specific for the operation method are dislocation of the prosthesis, perforation of the esophagus, bleeding and occlusion. 74.4% of the patients subjectively considered the operation successful.
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