Pathogenesis of acute radiation injury to the rectum - A prospective study in patients

International Journal of Colorectal Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 23-30

  Sedgwick, D M ^a,b   Howard, G C W ^a,b   Ferguson, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANUS SPHINCTER DISORDER; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYPT CELL; DEFECATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HEALING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MALE; PAIN; PATHOGENESIS; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION INJURY; RECTUM BIOPSY; RECTUM INJURY; RECTUM MUCOSA; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NUTRITION DISORDERS; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTUM; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0028327123     PISSN: 01791958     EISSN: 14321262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00304295     Document Type: Article

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