Treatment of unresectable pancreatic carcinoma by intraluminal brachytherapy in the duct of Wirsung

Endoscopy

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 555-559

  Mutignani, M ^a   Shah, S K ^a   Morganti, A G ^b   Perri, V ^a   Macchia, G ^b   Costamagna, G ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; IRIDIUM 192;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON BILE DUCT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; MALE; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS DUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; STENT; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; TOXICITY TESTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC DUCTS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036288672     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-33214     Document Type: Article

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