Abstract：Objective Esophageal cancer was one of the common human gastrointestinal malignant tumor, the postoperative enteral nutrition therapy approach mainly included nasal duodenal nutrition tube and jejunum nutrient catheter. This study aimed to explore the application value of the nasal duodenal nutrition tube in postoperative enteral nutrition of esophageal carcinoma. Methods We enrolled 50 patients, diagnosed as esophageal carcinoma, who received the resection of esophageal carcinoma and postoperative enteral nutrition from Jan. 2014 to Oct. 2016. All the patients were divided into group A and group B, the basic information of two groups of patients such as age, gender were analyzed, and there were no significant differences (P>0.05), the patients of group A were placed the nasal duodenal nutrition tube during operation, the position of the nasal duodenal nutrition tubes were verified by X-ray routinely after operation; group B were placed the jejunum nutrient catheter. All the patients were supported by the enteral nutrition 24 hours after operation. Results All the patients of group A were successfully placed the duodenal nutrition tube, the mean time was 15 minutes. The position of tubes were verified well done in the duodenum by X-ray. The patients of group B were successfully completed jejunostomy, the mean time was 20 minutes, there were no significant differences between the two groups on the tolerance of nutrition tube and incidence of catheter related complications (P>0.05). Conclusions Each of the two approach have advantages and disadvantages, but nasal duodenal nutrition tube was security, economic and feasible for the esophageal carcinoma patients who needed postoperative enteral nutrition, especially it had a wider feasible crowd and could be widely generalized.
