Stenting the sigmoid colon in a terminally ill patient with prostate cancer

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 153-156

  Friedland, S ^a   Hallenbeck, J ^a   Soetikno, R M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLON OBSTRUCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; METASTASIS; PAIN; PROSTATE CANCER; SIGMOID; STENT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COLONOSCOPY; FATAL OUTCOME; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SIGMOID NEOPLASMS; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; STENTS;

EID: 0034956811     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/109662101750290182     Document Type: Article

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