The use of an anabolic steroid (nandrolone decanoate) to improve nutritional status after esophageal resection for carcinoma

Diseases of the Esophagus

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 283-288

  Darnton, S J ^a   Zgainski, B ^a   Grenier, I ^a   Allister, K ^b   Hiller, L ^c   McManus, K G ^b   Steyn, R S ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM HEARTLANDS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANABOLIC AGENT; NANDROLONE DECANOATE;

ADULT; AGED; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE MASS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THROMBOEMBOLISM; WEIGHT GAIN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANABOLIC AGENTS; ANTHROPOMETRY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NANDROLONE; NUTRITION DISORDERS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0033499485     PISSN: 11208694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-2050.1999.00074.x     Document Type: Article

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