Palliation of malignant esophageal dysphagia using polyflex self expanding plastic stent

The patients with esophageal tumor are suffering from not only the general effects of the malignant disease, but also the inability of swallowing, rapid weight loss, hyper-salivation, fistula and aspiration. The technological advance in plastic industry has helped to design a new self-expanding plastic stent. The authors discuss their experience with Polyflex and Tygon stents, comparing the results and the survival of the different groups. We have been using Polyflex stent since the clinical experiments. Over the past five years swallowing ability reconstruction was performed 102 times in 91 patients with Tygon…