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Esophageal Stent

Self-expanding wire mesh stent placed in a 62 year-old man with distal esophageal adenocarcinoma. Retroflexed view of the stent emerging through the tumor into the stomach on the left; view through the stent on the right.


Coil-type stent placed in a 65 year-old woman with midesophageal squamous cell carcinoma. Upper portion of stent on the left; view through the stent on the right.


69 year-old man with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, who had a coil-type esophageal stent placed four weeks previously. The stent has migrated from the esophagus and into the stomach.

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