Nd:Yag laser therapy of rectosigmoid bleeding due to radiation injury

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 1982, Pages 65S-67S

  Leuchter, Ronald S ^a,b   Petrilli, Edmund S ^a,b   Dwyer, Richard M ^a,b   Hacker, Neville F ^a,b   Castaldo, Thomas W ^a,b   Lagasse, Leo D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROCTOSIGMOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSIS; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; LARGE INTESTINE; LASER; LASER COAGULATION; METHODOLOGY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR SYSTEM; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOTHERAPY; THERAPY; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COLON, SIGMOID; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LASERS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTUM; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0020061878     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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