Late effects of integrated therapies, including IORT, on lumbosacral plexus and anorectal physiology in patients treated for rectal cancer

Frontiers of Radiation Therapy and Oncology

Volumn 31, Issue , 1997, Pages 41-44

  Ratto, Carlo ^a   Sofo, Luigi ^a   Valentini, Vincenzo ^a   Genovesi, Domenico ^a   Morganti, Alessio G ^a   Verna, Laura ^a   Ippoliti, Massimo ^a   Merico, Marta ^a   Crucitti, Francesco ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAL CANAL; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTUM; RECTUM TUMOR;

ANAL CANAL; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM;

EID: 0030633504     PISSN: 00719676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000061141     Document Type: Article

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