Clinical profile of patients presented with esophageal carcinoma in tertiary care teaching medical college of Gujarat, India
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2019-03
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Medip Academy
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Background: Esophageal cancer is associated with multiple risk factors and associated with poor prognosis. Incidence of Esophageal cancer is increases now a days and it became a sixth leading cause of cancer related death in world. The purpose of this study was to know the clinical profile of patients of esophageal cancer in a tertiary care teaching hospital of Gujrat, India.Methods: This is a retrospective hospital record based study for a period of 2015 to 2018 in which 103 patients with endoscopic biopsy confirmed cases of esophageal cancer were analyzed for clinical profile.Results: Esophageal cancer was most common in low socioeconomic men (66%) of 5th decades (26.21%) associated with tobacco chewing (64.07%) as a major risk factor and dysphagia (86.76%) as most common presenting feature. Most common type and involvement were sqamous type (72.81%) and distal third (50.48%) part of the esophagus respectively.Conclusions: Primordial prevention and screening of patients may decrease mortality related to esophageal carcinoma.
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Clinical profile, Esophageal cancer, Endoscopic biopsy
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Kumar Santosh, Shah Amit, Pandya Hetal, Shah Meera. Clinical profile of patients presented with esophageal carcinoma in tertiary care teaching medical college of Gujarat, India. International Journal of Advances in Medicine. 2019 Mar; 6(2): 435-438