Palliative Surgery or Metallic Stent Positioning for Advanced Gastric Cancer: Differences in QOL.
Enrico FioriDaniele CrocettiPaolo SapienzaRoberto CirocchiAntonio V SterpettiMichelangelo MicciniMarcello AccordinoSilvano CostiPierfrancesco LapollaAndrea MingoliGiorgio De TomaAntonietta LamazzaPublished in: Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) (2021)
Early QoL of patients affected with stage IV antropyloric cancer and symptoms of GOOS is significantly better in patients treated with SEMS positioning but at 6-month the QoL significantly decrease in this group of patients. We explained the reasons of this fluctuation with the higher risk of re-hospital admission in the SEMS group.
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