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Palliative Medicine, Vol. 2, No. 2, 101-106 (1988)
DOI: 10.1177/026921638800200203

Palliative gastrointestinal endoscopy

Roland M Valori

Departments of Medicine and Gastroenterology, Selly Oak Hospital and St Mary's Hospice, Birmingham

Simon Dover

Departments of Medicine and Gastroenterology, Selly Oak Hospital and St Mary's Hospice, Birmingham

Therapeutic endoscopy has a useful place in palliative medicine. It can provide rapid and effective nonoperative relief of a number of symptoms. Endoscopy should be considered for oesophageal obstruction, obstructive jaundice, locally troublesome carcinoma of the rectum and perhaps for feeding gastrostomy. The indications for, practice of, and outcome from each of these techniques are considered.

Key Words: endoscopy • gastrointestinal intubation • gastrointestinal neoplasms • lasers • palliative treatment


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