Effects of continuous low-dose-rate brachytherapy on the rectum of the rat

Radiation Research

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 474-480

  Armour, Elwood P ^a   White, Julia R ^a   DeWitt, Coleen C ^a   Corry, Peter M ^a   Martinez, Alvaro ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; COLON OBSTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DOSE RESPONSE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RAT; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; RECTUM; RECTUM INJURY;

ANIMALS; BRACHYTHERAPY; DIARRHEA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECTUM; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; FISTULA;

EID: 0029984585     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3579069     Document Type: Article

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