식도암(食道癌)에 대한 임상적(臨床的) 고찰 = The Clinical Study on Patient with Esophageal Cancer

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The clinical study was carried out on 40 cases of the esophageal cancer for 10 years from January, 1960 through December ]969 at the department of surgery, Jeon-Ju provincial hospital.
The prevalent age was in the 4th decade of life in both sexes and average 53.2 years. Duration of the disease before seeking medical aid is comparatively long and the duration over 6 months is 32.5% of all the patients. In the majority of patients, the typical symptoms of espohageal cancer is manifested. In the lower esophagus including the cardiac region of the stomach adenocarcinoma was the most frequent type of tumour. In the middle esophagus the squamous cell carcinoma was the most frequent one.
Diagno sis was made by esophagoscopy with biopsy and esophagography. Operation was underwent on 55% of all patients and curative resection was feasible only in 13.5%, palliative operation comprising 86.6% of the operated patients.
Post-operative complications were relatively high (63%) and mortality was 22.5% of the operated cases.
In addition, general eoncepts of the esophageal cancer with brief review of literature was presented here.