Self-expanding metal stents as palliative treatment of stenotic relapsed gastric cancer after curative surgery in the elderly.
Palliation of inoperable stenotic gastric and/or duodenal cancer remains an open problem due to high operative mortality and diffuse tumor growth. We describe here in 3 cases of stenotic recurrent gastric cancer in the elderly successful treated using self-expanding metal stents.
Department of Internal Medicine, Digestive Endoscopy Unit, Cristo Re Hospital, Rome.
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