Esophageal cancer is one of the most aggressive malignancies gastrointestinal tract, characterized by high malignancy potential and poor prognosis. Surgical treatment standard for localized esophageal cancer, but results only surgery locally advanced tumors remain unsatisfactory. The use neoadjuvant chemotherapy, as well chemoradiation therapy, leads to a downstaging tumor, improves its resecta...

The last three years thirty children with esophageal foreign bodies were admitted Gaziantep SSK Hospital Pediatric Surgery Clinic. mean age 3. 72 in this group. admission time was found to be 36 hours. Coins the most frequently encountered and of at uppcıt esophagus. Esophagoscopy performed all patients as an emergency procedure under general anesthesia.

This study aimed to compare the efficiency of the thermal blanket and thermal mattress in the prevention of hypothermia during surgery. Thirty-eight randomized patients were divided into two groups (G1 - thermal blanket and G2 - thermal mattress). The variables studied were: length of surgery, length of stay in the post-anesthetic care unit, period without using the device after thermal inducti...

INTRODUCTION Broncho-esophageal fistula is a rare clinical condition which can be manifested with non-specific signs and symptoms. PRESENTATION OF A CASE Here, we report an adult case of a broncho-esophageal fistula in a 43-year-old man referred for chronic cough after fluid food intake and weight loss. Barium swallow, esophagogastroduodenoscopy, bronchoscopy and Computed Tomography of the ch...

Evidence-based medicine is the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of best available evidence in making decisions for individual patient care. The present review gives an evidence-based review of esophageal cancer surgery. The literature search was restricted to the highest level of evidence on the surgical treatment of esophageal cancer.

Gastro-esophageal reflux is a gastrointestinal disorder that might cause irreversible damages to the hard tissues of the teeth. The aim of this article is to report two cases of patients with severe dental demineralization associated with gastro-esophageal reflux during orthodontic and combined orthodontic-orthognathic surgery treatment. Diagnosis and prevention aspects are highlighted and disc...

UNLABELLED A 77-year-old man with early synchronous double primary gastric and esophageal cancer showed complete response (CR) to chemoradiotherapy (CRT) with fluorouracil (5-FU) and cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (CDDP) and 60 Gy total dose of radiation. Gastrointestinal endoscopy had revealed type IIc squamous cell carcinoma in the lower oesophagus and type IIc adenocarcinoma in the mid-stomach...

Introduction: leiomyoma is the most common benign esophageal neoplasm. Surgical treatment (enucleation) has traditionally been the therapy of choice. The advent of minimally invasive techniques has produced an increase in endoscopic approaches to the detriment of open surgery. Objective: the aim of this study was to compare the results obtained with open surgery and with laparoscopic surgery in...

background and objective: esophageal cancer especially squamous cell carcinoma (scc) is one of the most common gastro intestinal malignancies in north part of iran (khorasan). the standard treatment for esophageal cancer is surgical resection, but its outcome remains poor. then, the oncologists try to treat this cancer with sandwich protocols especially neo-adjuvant chemo-radiotherapy. several ...

In the recent past, the incidence of esophageal adenocarcinomas has risen dramatically, whereas the incidence of squamous cell carcinomas has remained relatively steady in the United States (Holmes & Vaughan, 2007). Esophageal adenocarcinoma arises from Barrett’s esophagus with an estimated incidence rate of 0.4-0.7 per 100-patients/year. (Sharma et al., 2004; Thomas et al., 2007). Barrett’s es...