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Esophageal cancer ( hole in neck)
My maternal grandfather is suffering from esophageal cancer and he is having difficuty in swallow food, whatever he is eating it is coming out from the neck wound, the neck swelling is burst out and all the pus secreated, what should we do right now ? Patient become weak and still the pus is coming out from the neck wound, how we can manage? Will the wound will heal ? How we can focus on nutrition?
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It's a fistula
Better to hav a Feeding gastrostomy / jejunostomy for nutrition
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