Treatment of cutaneous radiation fibrosis with pentoxifylline and vitamin E. A case report;BEHANDLUNG DER KUTANEN STRAHLENFIBROSE MIT PENTOXIFYLLIN UND VITAMIN E. EIN ERFAHRUNGSBERICHT

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 34-38

  Gottlober P ^a   Krahn G ^a   Korting, H C ^a   Stock, W ^b   Peter, R U ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Institut für Mikrobiologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; E VITAMIN RATIOPHARM; PENTOXIFYLLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SKIN FIBROSIS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PENTOXIFYLLINE; RADIODERMATITIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SKIN; SKIN ULCER; VITAMIN E;

EID: 0030051403     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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