title: Obstruction due to malignant tumors.
abstract: An overview of the causes, the clinical pictures and the management of obstruction in three major organ systems due to primary and secondary malignant neoplasms has been presented. Such obstruction often produces dramatic clinical pictures that require careful, appropriate, and often aggressive therapy if patients are to receive the quality of palliation they deserve or the attendant improvement in survival that may result.
mesh_terms: D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000209:etiology*; D001660:Biliary Tract Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D004940:Esophageal Stenosis / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D005770:Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000209:etiology*; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D014134:Tracheal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D014135:Tracheal Stenosis / Q000209:etiology; D014517:Ureteral Obstruction / Q000209:etiology*; D014565:Urogenital Neoplasms / Q000150:complications