A randomized comparison of dilatation alone versus dilatation plus laser in patients receiving chemotherapy and external beam radiation for esophageal carcinoma

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2255-2260

  Anand, Bhupinderjit S ^a,b   Saeed, Zahid A ^a   Michaletz, Patrice A ^a   Winchester, Carolyn B ^a   Doherty, Mary Ann ^a   Liem, John H ^a   Graham, David Y ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Carcinoma; Dilatation; Dysphagia; Esophagus; Laser

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LASER SURGERY; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; BALLOON DILATATION; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DILATATION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031764663     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026618706464     Document Type: Article

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