The use of a pelvic displacement prosthesis to exclude the small intestine from the radiation field following radical hysterectomy

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 438-443

  Burnett, Alexander F ^a   Coe, Frederick L ^b   Klement, Vaclav ^a   O'Meara, Anne T ^a   Muderspach, Laila I ^a   Roman, Lynda D ^a   Morrow, C Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BioEnterics Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIATRIZOATE; SILICONE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LYMPHADENECTOMY; PELVIS; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; RADIATION FIELD; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; SMALL INTESTINE; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

EID: 0033670548     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gyno.2000.5965     Document Type: Article

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