The palliative treatment of malignant gastroduodenal obstruction / 国际外科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Malignant obstruction of the stomach or duodenum is a preterminal event in patients with ad-vanced malignancies of the upper gastrointestinal.It severely limits the quality of life in affected patients.Most patients are in bad conditions and have an short expecting live time,so they not only can not bear but also do not need such an invasive operation.Because of this,a minimally invasive but effective palliative treatment is quite necessary.This paper makes a summary and contrastive analysis of several ways of pallia-five treatment which are widely used for malignant gastroduodenal obstruction in recent years.