Quality of life in patients undergoing treatment for chronic radiation-induced rectal bleeding

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1251-1254

  Dent, O F ^a,b   Galt, E ^c   Chapuis, P H ^b   Yuile, P ^d   Sinclair, G ^b   Bokey, E L ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases   (Australia)

^d Mater Hospital   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LASERS; LIGHT COAGULATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIATION INJURIES; RECTUM; TELANGIECTASIS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031690973     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.1998.00821.x     Document Type: Article

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