Trends in Surgical Management of Esophageal Cancer.

Background: Management of esophageal cancer has changed to a combined modality approach over the past two decades due to poor outcome. Recently, multimodal treatment has become the standard practice. The aim of this study was to evaluate the changing trends in management and outcomes of esophagectomy over 15 years from a single center in Nepal.

Management of Locally Advanced Esophageal Cancer.

Esophageal cancer is diagnosed usually at a locally advanced stage. Surgery alone has less optimal results and a multimodality approach has been established as the standard of care for cII-III stages of esophageal cancer. This review focuses on the recent evidences of management of esophageal cancer with various variations in approaches in Eastern and Western countries.

Medical Thoracoscopy for Undiagnosed Exudative Pleural Effusion: Experience from Two Tertiary Care Hospitals of Nepal.

Introduction: Medical thoracoscopy has recently gained renewed interest due to its minimal invasive nature and high yield diagnostic outcome. This study aims to observe diagnostic yield and safety of medical thoracoscopy in undiagnosed exudative pleural effusion.

Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in two tertiary care hospitals in Chitwan from March 2018 to May 2018.

Medical Thoracoscopy for Undiagnosed Exudative Pleural Effusion: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study.

Introduction: Medical thoracoscopy has recently gained renewed interest due to its minimal invasive nature and high yield diagnostic outcome. This study aims to observe diagnostic yield and safety of medical thoracoscopy in undiagnosed exudative pleural effusion.

Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in two tertiary care hospitals in Chitwan from March 2018 to May 2018.

Evidence Based Surgical Approach to Locally Advanced Gastric Cancer.

Gastric cancer is endemic in China, Japan, Korea, Brazil and Former Soviet Union. Patients are diagnosed usually in locally advanced stage. Endoscopy, Positron Emission Therapy- Computed Tomography, Endoscopic ultrasound and staging laparoscopy are the tools for proper evaluation of such patients.

Results of management of esophageal and GE junction malignancies in Nepalese context.

Background: Optimal management of esophageal and GE junction cancer in Nepal has not been studied properly. We reviewed our results to recommend some practical guidelines.

Methods: An institutional review of 327 patients was done.