Dilation of Malignant Strictures in Endoscopic Ultrasound Staging of Esophageal Cancer and Metastatic Spread of Disease

Table 1

Demographics of patients with esophageal cancer who did and did not undergo dilation at the time of staging EUS.

	Dilated group	Nondilated group	P value
Total patients	23	32
Men	18	29	0.26
Women	5	3	0.26
Mean age	63	64
Adenocarcinoma	16	27	0.21
Squamous cell carcinoma	7	5	0.21
Cervical esophagus stricture	2	2	0.99
Thoracic esophagus stricture	6	10	0.77
Gastroesophageal junction stricture	15	20	1.0
Metastases present at time of EUS	9	6	0.13
Locally advanced disease at time of EUS	14	20	1.0