Does chemoradiation therapy increase the incidence of complications with self-expanding coated stents in the management of malignant esophageal strictures?

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 92, Issue 12 SUPPL., 1997, Pages 2192-2196

  Raijman, Isaac ^a,b   Siddique, Iqbal ^a   Lynch, Patryck ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b Therap/Diagn Gastro Assoc PA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT FISTULA; STENT;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGEAL STENOSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTATIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; STENTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA;

EID: 0030780754     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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