Successful and sustained treatment of chronic radiation proctitis with antioxidant vitamins E and C

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1080-1084

  Kennedy, Marc ^a   Bruninga, Keith ^a   Mutlu, Ece A ^a   Losurdo, John ^a   Choudhary, Sandeep ^a   Keshavarzian, Ali ^b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG RESPONSE; ENDOSCOPY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MORBIDITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION INJURY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; REPERFUSION INJURY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; CHRONIC DISEASE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCTITIS; RADIATION INJURIES; REMISSION INDUCTION; VITAMIN E;

EID: 0035045343     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9270(01)02305-X     Document Type: Article

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