[Palliative treatment of esophageal cancer].

The AA. describe the indications, the technique and the complications of application of oesophageal endoprosthesis (Celestin or Haring) for palliative treatment of oesophageal cancer and they value the results of 34 applications of these prosthesis that were executed about Surgical Clinic in Verona with satisfactory results during the period 1974-77. They show the improvement of survival conditions in these patients, the rareness of complications, the absence of absolute contra-indications.