Endoscopic findings of radiation esophagitis in concurrent chemoradiotherapy for intrathoracic malignancies

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 273-278

  Hirota, Saeko ^a   Tsujino, Kayoko ^a   Hishikawa, Yoshio ^a   Watanabe, Hirokazu ^a   Kono, Koichi ^a   Soejima, Toshinori ^a   Obayashi, Kayoko ^a   Takada, Yoshiki ^a   Kono, Michio ^a   Abe, Mitsuyuki ^a  

^a HYOGO MEDICAL CENTER FOR ADULTS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Concurrent chemoradiotherapy; Esophageal endoscopy; Radiation esophagitis

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CISPLATIN DERIVATIVE; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN; VINDESINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS MUCOSA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRRADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0035282748     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(00)00274-7     Document Type: Article

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