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Background: The ideal method for staging tumours of the oesophagus and gastric cardia is not known. This paper was designed to assess the value of laparoscopy and laparoscopic ultrasonography in the staging of oesophageal and cardial carcinoma.

Methods: From October 1993 to January 1996, 60 patients in whom no metastases were seen on gastroscopy, ultrasonography of the abdomen and supraclavicular region, helical computed tomography of the chest and abdomen or endosonography were scheduled for laparoscopy and laparoscopic ultrasonography.

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