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Surgery is the first choice of treatment for the Gastrointestinal tumor. It is not a good candidate for operation in the later stage of the advanced obstructive tumor in G-I tract. Several palliative methods for removing the obstruction made by G-I tumor include chemotherapy, irradiation, endoprothesis, dilatation and laser. Laser study for the animal G-I tumor had been reported by McGuff, Minton and Mullin(1–4) in the early of 1960s. The laser research for human G-I disorders has been developing in recent 15 years.
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Wu, K.L., Cheng, T.C. (1990). High Energy Laser Irradiation and Electric Surgery for Obstructive Gastrointestinal Cancer. In: Waidelich, W., Waidelich, R. (eds) Laser/Optoelektronik in der Medizin / Laser/Optoelectronics in Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93435-3_8
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