This is a report of 121 cases of advanced esophageal and cardic cancer managed by endoscopic and surgical esophageal intubation. The patients were observed, treated and followed-up by a protocol as follows: clinical observation, subsidiary examinations, staging, intra and post-operative evaluation, mortality, discharge, late follow-up, survival rate and death. There were seventeen patients with esophago-respiratory fistulas, and 15 (88,3%) of them were treated by endoscopic intubation, while the remaining two by surgical intubation. These last two patients deceased because of respiratory complications: the first with tube airway obstruction, and the second with pneumonia. Out of the 15 patients proposed for endoscopic intubation, only one was insuucessful. The seventeen cases of esophago-respiratory fistulas had 80% efficient oclusion by endoscopic intubation and the mortality rate was 13,3%, thus recommending this method for these cases. The results of endoscopic and surgical intubation in this group of patients recommend its use in patients with advanced esophageal and cardic cancer.
Esophageal cancer; Treatment