Mousseau-barbin tubes for the treatment of carcinoma of the lower two-thirds of the oesophagus results and operative techniques

Abstract

Twenty-three patients have undergone insertion of a Mousseau-Barbin tube for the correction of dysphagia due to inoperable carcinoma of the stomach or the oesophagus. All the patients obtained relief of their symptoms and there was no postoperative mortality or infection. Technical details are discussed which are designed to reduce the occurrence of obstruction of the tube and erosion of the mucosa of stomach and oesophagus, and to facilitate insertion of the tube in difficult cases.