Acute radiation colitis in patients treated with short-term preoperative radiotherapy for rectal cancer

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 498-504

  Leupin, Nicolas ^a   Curschmann, Jürgen ^a   Kranzbühler, Helmut ^a   Maurer, Christoph A ^a   Laissue, Jean A ^a   Mazzucchelli, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acute radiation injuries; Colitis; Colon; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLITIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAMINA PROPRIA; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RECTUM CANCER; SHORT COURSE THERAPY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLITIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION INJURIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036209040     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-200204000-00013     Document Type: Article

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