title: [Esophageal cancer in Hospital Rebagliati: experience of esophagus-stomach service 3 C-II].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Establishing the clinical pathological characteristics of cancer of the esophagus of an insured population in our environment.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this retrospective study , we studied 28 clinical histories of patients with a diagnosis of esophagus Cancer, who had been surgically treated at the Rebagliati Hospital, Service of Surgery 3C II, Lima-Perú from September 2002 to December 2005. Data were collected regarding : age ,gender, presentation symptoms , anatomic location of the tumor, regional lymphatic metastasis (N), distance metastasis (M), TNM staging, resecability, complications, mortality and histological type.
  
  
  RESULTS
  According to age 64.5% (18/28 ) were more of the sixty years old and the 75% (21/28) were male. Distribution according to anatomic locations : 10.7% (3/28) were located at the esophagus cervical, 17.9% (5/28) in the upper esophagus chest, 35.7% (10/28) in the middle esophagus chest, 14.3% (4/28) in the lower esophagus chest and the 21.4% (6/28) in the abdominal esophagus. Excisions were performed on 57.1% ( 16/28), in 68.8% (11/16) of the excised patients the adventicia was affected, in 68.8% (11/16) the lymph node were affected. The mortality was 12.5% (2/16) and early complications were 81.3% (13/16). The histological type was epidermoid in 78.6% ( 22/28).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  At our Hospital there seems to be an increase in the frequency of adenocarcinoma of the esophagus, but the type more frecuently is epidermoid.
authors.affiliation: Médico Asistente. Servicio de Cirugía 3C II, Hospital Rebagliati. pjrios67@latinmail.com
authors.forename: Pedro J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Rios C
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Huam G
authors.forename: Pedro O
authors.initials: PO
authors.lastname: Ríos T
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies