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Dysphagia relief after palliative care regarding the different variables in patients suffering from inoperable esophageal cancer in Golestan province, northeast of Iran
| Dysphagia relief | Variables |
No recovery |
Recovery |
||
| n | % | n | % | ||
| Type of palliative care | Stent | 1 | 25 | 3 | 75 |
| Dilation | 13 | 37.1 | 22 | 62.9 | |
| Total | 14 | 35.9 | 25 | 64.1 | |
| Age (yr) | < 65 | 3 | 21.4 | 11 | 78.6 |
| ≥ 65 | 10 | 40 | 15 | 60 | |
| Pathology | SCC | 13 | 36.1 | 23 | 63.9 |
| Adenocarcinoma | 1 | 33.3 | 2 | 66.7 | |
