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- Title
Benefits of Recurrent Colonic Stent Insertion in a Patient with Advanced Gastric Cancer with Carcinomatosis Causing Colonic Obstruction.
- Authors
Semi Park; Sang Joon Shin; Joong Bae Ahn; Hei-Cheul Jeung; Sun Young Rha; Sang Kil Lee; Hyun Cheol Chung
- Abstract
Malignant obstruction develops frequently in advanced gastric cancer. Although it is primarily the gastric outlet that is obstructed, there are occasional reports of colonic obstruction. Treating intestinal obstruction usually requires emergency surgery or stent insertion. There are several kinds of complications with stent insertion, such as bowel perforation, stent migration, bleeding, abdominal pain and reobstruction. Nevertheless, endoscopic stent insertion could be a better treatment than emergency surgery in cases of malignant bowel obstruction in cancer patients with poor performance status. We report a case of advanced gastric cancer with carcinomatosis in which a recurrent colonic stent was inserted at the same site because of cancer growth into the stent. The patient maintained a good condition for chemotherapy, thus improving their chances for survival.
- Subjects
SURGICAL stents; ABDOMINAL pain; BOWEL obstructions; GASTROINTESTINAL cancer; DRUG therapy
- Publication
Yonsei Medical Journal, 2009, Vol 50, Issue 2, p296
- ISSN
0513-5796
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.3349/ymj.2009.50.2.296