Radiation enteritis: A rare complication of the transverse colon in uterine cancer

Internal Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1060-1063

  Yoshimura, Kenji ^a,c   Hirata, Ichiro ^b   Maemura, Kentaro ^b   Sugi, Kazunori ^b   Tahara, Tetsuo ^b  

^a Kodama Hospital   (Japan)

^b OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c Kodama Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colitis; Pelvic malignancies; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; MELENA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OVARIECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MELENA; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PNEUMONITIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; SULFASALAZINE; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034577670     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.39.1060     Document Type: Article

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