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Radiology, Vol 180, 349-354, Copyright © 1991 by Radiological Society of North America

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Esophagogastric neoplasms: palliation with a modified gianturco stent

HY Song, KC Choi, BH Cho, DS Ahn and KS Kim
Department of Radiology, Chonbuk National University Medical School, Keumam Dong, Chonju City, Republic of Korea.

Self-expanding metallic stents of a modified Gianturco design were used for palliative treatment of malignant esophagogastric strictures. Over a 10-month period, 10 stents were placed in nine patients. All patients with severe dysphagia due to malignant strictures in whom all other treatment options had failed were candidates for these stents. Neither extensive length of esophageal involvement nor complete esophageal obstruction was a contraindication. All stents were placed with fluoroscopic guidance without any technical failures or procedural morbidity or mortality. Mild reflux occurred in three patients in whom the stent tubes straddled the distal esophageal sphincter. Five patients were still alive after 1-8 months. The remaining four patients died 6-28 weeks after stent placement; all stents were patent at the time of death. These stents are easy to insert, safe, and reasonably effective for short-term palliative treatment of esophagogastric neoplasms.


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