Complications of stent placement in patients with esophageal cancer: A systematic review and network meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Palliative treatments and stents are necessary for relieving dysphagia in patients with esophageal cancer. The aim of this study was to simultaneously compare available treatments in terms of complications.

Methods

Web of Science, Medline, Scopus, Cochrane Library and Embase were searched. Statistical heterogeneity was assessed using the Chi2 test and was quantified by I2. The results of this study were summarized in terms of Risk Ratio (RR). The random effects model was used to report the results. The rank probability for each treatment was calculated using the p-score.

Results

Out of 17855 references, 24 RCTs reported complications including treatment related death (TRD), bleeding, stent migration, aspiration, severe pain and fistula formation. In the ran

SUBMITTER: Doosti-Irani A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5624586 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature