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Clinicopathological profile of carcinoma of oesophagus at Aligarh.

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August 1991

Department of Surgery, JN Medical College, AMU, Aligarh.

Forty-seven patients with oesophageal carcinoma were managed in 6 years' time. Average duration of illness was 5.5 months.

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Use of a Mousseau-Barbin tube in the management of a tuberculous tracheo-oesophageal fistula.

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Department of Thoracic Surgery, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

A case report of a tuberculous tracheo-oesophageal fistula is described. The patient was successfully treated by antituberculous chemotherapy and a Mousseau-Barbin tube to control dysphagia and choking on deglutition. After 3 months the Mousseau-Barbin tube became displaced and was removed.

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Between 1973 and 1984, 27 patients with a cancer of the esophagus or the cardia and suffering dysphagia underwent palliation with an endoluminal prosthesis. Intubation under esophagoscopy or through a gastrotomy, or both, allowed the placement of 23 Celestin tubes and 4 Mousseau-Barbin prostheses. The early postoperative death rate was 11%.

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