title: [Feeding gastrostomy--last possibility for a palliative operation in malignant stenoses of the esophagus-cardia].
abstract: From 1960-1980 we operated 326 patients suffering from a malignant stenosis of the esophagus-cardia region. We had to establish a nutritional fistula as a palliative operation in 56 patients (17.2%). The operative tactics and the final results are described. The postoperative lethality with these dangerously ill patients is up to 23.9%.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002299:Cardia / Q000601:surgery; D004750:Enteral Nutrition; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D004940:Esophageal Stenosis / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005774:Gastrostomy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010166:Palliative Care; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*
vernacular_title: Die Ernährungsfistel--letzte Möglichkeit einer Palliativoperation bei malignen Stenosen im Oesophagus-Kardia-Bereich.