Use of Saline-Filled Tissue Expanders to Protect the Small Bowel from Radiation

ONCOLOGY

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 51-54

  Hoffman, John P ^a   Sigurdson, Elin R ^a   Eisenberg, Burton L ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; COLORECTAL TUMOR; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MALE; NEURILEMOMA; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOTHERAPY; SARCOMA; SMALL INTESTINE;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; NEURILEMMOMA; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY; SARCOMA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TISSUE EXPANDERS;

EID: 0031614153     PISSN: 08909091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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