Adverse events of self-expandable esophageal metallic stents in patients with long-term survival from advanced malignant disease.Medeiros 2017.For lesions located in the proximal esophagus, we used a dedicated model of a partially covered stent with a lowprofile, proximal flare shape (choostent; mi tech, pyeongtaek, korea).For lesions located in the mid-esophagus, we used a standard partially covered stent or, less often, a fully covered stent, with an 18- to 23-mm body diameter and 23- to 28-mm flare diameter (wallflex and ultraflex [boston scientific, watertown, mass], evolution [wilson cook medical, letchworth, uk], hanarostent [mi tech], or endoflex [voerde, germany]).Severe gastroesophageal reflux (heart burn or regurgitation associated with the findings of peptic erosions at endoscopy) - 1 case.''restenting was performed for 1 patients for due severe reflux'.' cannot confirm that an evo-pc/fc-e (unknown) was used -file being opened conservatively.
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