The effectiveness of preoperative intraluminal brachytherapy in preventing wall penetration and nodal involvement of rectal carcinomas

Surgery Today

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 410-415

  Yanagi, Hidenori ^a   Kusunoki, Masato ^a   Yamamura, Takehira ^a  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Intraluminal brachytherapy; Pathology; Radiotherapy; Rectal carcinoma

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CARCINOMA;

EID: 0034079778     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005950050613     Document Type: Article

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