A controlled trial of corticosteroids in children with corrosive injury of the esophagus

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 323, Issue 10, 1990, Pages 637-640

  Anderson, Kathryn D ^a   Rouse, Thomas M ^a   Randolph, Judson G ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE;

ARTICLE; CAUSTIC BURN; CHILD; ESOPHAGUS BURN; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0025047094     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199009063231004     Document Type: Article

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