Clinical outcomes of self-expandable metal stents in palliation of malignant anastomotic strictures caused by recurrent gastric cancer

Table 2 Improvement in the oral intake status compared to before stent insertion (n = 20)

Oral intake status (by GOOSS)	Number of cases
	Pre-stenting	Post-stenting
No oral intake (0)	15	3
Liquids only (1)	3	6
Soft solids (2)	2	8
Low-residual or full diet (3)	0	3
Mean scoreb	0.35 ± 0.61	1.55 ± 0.94

^bP < 0.01 by Wilcoxon signed rank test; GOOSS: Gastric Outlet Obstruction Scoring System.