[Application of intraesophageal stent for the treatment of esophageal fistula].

The results of treatment of 52 patients, suffering esophageal fistula, of them 36--with tumoral origin and 16--due to anastomotic sutures insufficiency, were analyzed. The domestic production stents with partial or complete polytetrafluoroethylene coverage were applied. The stent was put in place under roentgenoscopy guidance according to the authors method.

[Intravascular laser irradiation of the blood in complex treatment of the patient with esophageal cancer].

Complex treatment of 41 patients with intrathoracic esophageal cancer using intravascular laser irradiation of the blood was done. The immunorehabilitating method application had promoted the postoperative complications rate lowering, the mortality reduction, the three-year survival rate indexes improvement.