Fatal hemorrhage in irradiated esophageal cancer patients

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 259-262

  Nemoto, Kenji ^a   Takai, Yoshihiro ^a   Ogawa, Yoshihiro ^a   Kakuto, Yoshihisa ^a   Ariga, Hisanori ^a   Matsushita, Haruo ^a   Wada, Hitoshi ^a   Yamada, Shogo ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TUMOR NECROSIS;

AGED; AORTIC RUPTURE; AUTOPSY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0031749375     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/028418698429559     Document Type: Article

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