## Summary 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 mediastinal nodes, was treated by intubation with a Celestin tube. The hospital mortality was high but 81 patients left ho
Palliation of carcinoma of the oesophagus
โ Scribed by Julius L. Stoller
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 127 KB
- Volume
- 66
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
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