1993 Volume 42 Pages 177-180
A 72-year-old man with unresectable esophageal cancer was referred and admitted to our hospital for endoscopic therapy.
The lesion located at the mid-portion of esophagus, that was completely occluded. On August 27, endoscopic placement of straight prosthetic tube was performed using a Celestin pulsion tube, but improvement of oral intake was not noted. On September 19, therefore, a prototype curved prosthetic tube was in place again.
Since then, the patient was followed up at the outpatient clinic because it made the patient oral intake of food possible. However the patient was rehospitalized 5 months later, because the prosthetic tube indwelled had migrated into the stomach. It was endoscopically extracted. Until the end of January 1993, aphagia has been completely relieved. No cancerous lesion was not endoscopically noted at the site where stricture was previously existed.
It is considered that a longstanding placement of prosthetic tube induced a necrosis of the lesion, resulted disappearance of cancer and eventually permits a long-term oral intake.
