Palliation of oesophageal cancer

Surgical Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 123-126

  Mason, Robert ^a  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CESIUM 137; CISPLATIN; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BLEEDING; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DEVICE; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; ESOPHAGUS OBSTRUCTION; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACTABLE PAIN; INTUBATION; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; SHORT SURVEY; STENT; TUMOR GROWTH;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ARGON; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; HUMANS; INTUBATION; LASERS; LIGHT COAGULATION; STENTS;

EID: 0035673928     PISSN: 09607404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-7404(01)00026-3     Document Type: Short Survey

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