Improvement of oral ingestion in patients with inoperable esophageal cancer treated with radiotherapy, chemotherapy and insertion of a self-expanding nitinol stent

Diseases of the Esophagus

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 289-293

  Funami, Y ^a,b   Tokumoto, N ^a   Miyauchi, H ^a   Kuga, K ^a   Sato, S ^a  

^a Kashima Labor Welfare Hospital   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; MALE; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLOYS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEGLUTITION; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; EATING; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY; STENTS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033505716     PISSN: 11208694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-2050.1999.00026.x     Document Type: Article

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