Elderly patients who underwent duodenal stent placement for advanced obstructive gastric cancer : report of four cases

Abstract

We report of a case report of four elderly patients who underwent duodenal stent placement for advanced gastric cancer with pyloric stenosis. The average values were as follows : age, : 85.8 years, stent insertion time : 19 minutes, days required for starting safe postoperative oral feeding : 2 ; days between stent insertion and hospital discharge : 50 (range : 9-92) , and survival time after stent insertion (as of October 6, 2017) : 372 days (range : 98-927) . Particularly a 96-year-old woman who had type 2 advanced gastric cancer in the pyloric antrum can still eat orally and is alive. She is an outpatient, and 927 days have passed since the stent was placed.