Clinical profile of patients presented with esophageal carcinoma in tertiary care teaching medical college of Gujarat, India

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dc.contributor.authorKumar, Santoshen_US
dc.contributor.authorShah, Amiten_US
dc.contributor.authorPandya, Hetalen_US
dc.contributor.authorShah, Meeraen_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-09T07:41:27Z
dc.date.available2020-04-09T07:41:27Z
dc.date.issued2019-03
dc.description.abstractBackground: 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.en_US
dc.identifier.affiliationsDepartment of Medicine, SBKS Medical Institute & Research Centre, SVU, Vadodara, Gujrat, Indiaen_US
dc.identifier.citationKumar 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): 435-438en_US
dc.identifier.issn2349-3925
dc.identifier.issn2349-3933
dc.identifier.placeIndiaen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/194246
dc.languageenen_US
dc.publisherMedip Academyen_US
dc.relation.issuenumber2en_US
dc.relation.volume6en_US
dc.source.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2349-3933.ijam20191155en_US
dc.subjectClinical profileen_US
dc.subjectEsophageal canceren_US
dc.subjectEndoscopic biopsyen_US
dc.titleClinical profile of patients presented with esophageal carcinoma in tertiary care teaching medical college of Gujarat, Indiaen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
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