Question

What are the characteristics of gurgling in esophageal cancer and gastritis?

Answer

Esophageal cancer can be divided into early, middle, and late stages according to its pathological development status, with various symptom manifestations. Early symptoms include increased saliva, a sensation of difficulty swallowing food, pain or discomfort behind the sternum, a feeling of foreign body in the esophagus, dryness and tightness in the throat, difficulty or slight pain when swallowing food, a feeling of slow passage or retention of food, and the same sensation when drinking water. In addition, there may be symptoms such as backache and gurgling. In the middle and late stages, symptoms include difficulty in swallowing, inability to swallow solid food, or difficulty swallowing even after being rinsed with soup or water, followed by obstruction in swallowing semi-solid foods, and finally difficulty in swallowing liquid foods. Subsequently, chest pain or back pain may occur, as well as vomiting of mucus, cervical or supraclavicular lymph node swelling. When the tumor directly invades or metastatic lesions compress the recurrent laryngeal nerve, laryngeal paralysis may occur, leading to hoarseness, bleeding, shortness of breath, dry cough. In addition, when systemic widespread metastasis of cancer cells occurs, it can induce symptoms such as jaundice, ascites, abnormal liver function, difficulty breathing, coughing, headache, and coma. Severe cases may lead to esophageal obstruction or complete…