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Revista de Gastroenterología del Perú

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RIOS CANTURIN, Pedro J.; HUAMAN G, Manuel  and  RIOS TORRES, Pedro O.. Esophageal cancer in Hospital Rebagliati: experience of esophagus-stomach service 3 C-II. Rev. gastroenterol. Perú [online]. 2007, vol.27, n.4, pp.416-422. ISSN 1022-5129.

OBJETIVES: Establishing the clinical pathological characteristics of cancer of the esophagus of an insured population in our environment.   MATERIAL AND 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.

Keywords : Cancer of the esophagus; clinical pathological characteristics.

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