食管癌、贲门癌是最常见的消化道肿瘤之一,在临床工作中,所遇到的患者多属晚期。肿瘤不能切除的占24～70%。这些患者的最大痛苦是病变处狭窄梗阻所致的不能经口进食,最终衰竭死亡。近一个多世纪来,很多外科学者为减轻在带癌生存期间的痛苦而设计了一些姑息性 Esophageal and cardiac cancers are one of the most common cancers of the digestive tract. In clinical work, most of the patients encountered are advanced. 24 to 70% of tumors cannot be removed. The greatest pain in these patients is that they are unable to eat orally due to stenosis at the site of the lesion and ultimately die of failure. In the past more than a century, many surgeons have designed some palliative measures to alleviate the pain during cancer survival.