Introduction:
 Spinal epidural abscess is a rare neurosurgical emergency that usually seen invasive interventions to the spinal region, trauma or infection. In our case, anteriorly located abscess, which caused by spontaneous esophageal rupture as complication of radiotherapy, described.
 Case report:
 A 60-year-old female patient was admitted department with complaints confusion...

OBJECTIVE To describe the costs of treating lung, laryngeal and esophageal cancer among patients with histories of smoking. METHODS A longitudinal non-concurrent study on three cohorts with histories of smoking at a specialized hospital was carried out in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Southeastern Brazil, between 2000 and 2006. The sample was composed of 127 cases of lung cancer, 80 of laryngea...

Aortic pseudoaneurysm formation subsequent to concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) for esophageal cancer patient with esophageal metallic stent insertion is a rare condition.A 52-year-old man with esophageal cancer, cT4N1M0, stage IIIC, was treated with concurrent weekly cisplatin (30 mg/m) and 5-Fluorouracil (500 mg/m) as well as radiotherapy (50.4 Gy in 28 fractions) for 6 weeks. An esophageal...

BACKGROUND Esophageal cancer is the seventh leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Traditional Chinese medicinal herbs are sometimes used as an adjunct to radiotherapy or chemotherapy for this type of cancer. OBJECTIVES To assess the efficacy and possible adverse effects of the addition of Chinese medicinal herbs to treatment with radiotherapy or chemotherapy for esophageal cancer. SEARCH...

Many modalities of treatment have been developed to improve the therapeutic results of esophageal cancer, but this disease remains one of the most difficult cancers to cure. Radiotherapy is one such attempt. It has attracted huge attention since the concept of chemoradiation was introduced because of the improved response. Regarding all other modes of treatment, chemoradiation has merits and de...

BACKGROUND Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy following surgery has recently become a standard therapy. The purpose of the present study was to determine the effectiveness and toxicity of re-irradiation for oligo-recurrence in lymph nodes from esophageal cancer treated by definitive radiotherapy or by surgery with additional radiotherapy. METHODS We reviewed retrospectively 248 patients treated wi...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to assess the 6-months dysphagia-free survival, improvement in swallowing function, complication rate, and overall survival in patients with incurable esophageal cancer treated with palliative radiotherapy. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed data from 139 patients (median age 72 years) with advanced/recurrent incurable esophageal cancer, who were referred to...

We analyzed the improvement of survival time and the effects of neoadjuvant chemotherapy combined with radiotherapy on treating patients with advanced esophageal carcinoma. Retrospectively, 43 patients were selected with esophageal carcinoma who were administered neoadjuvant chemotherapy combined with radiotherapy. According to gender, and tumor staging, the nearest neighbor matching was carrie...

Radiation-induced esophagitis is the most common local acute toxicity of radiotherapy (RT) delivered for the curative or palliative intent treatment of lung cancer. Although concurrent chemotherapy and higher RT dose are associated with increased esophagitis risk, advancements in RT techniques as well as adherence to esophageal dosimetric constraints may reduce the incidence and severity. Mild ...