Pharmacotherapy for chronic hemorrhagic radiation proctitis

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1499-1502

  Gul, Yunus A ^a   Prasannan, Subhita ^a   Jabar, Faisal M ^a   Shaker, Abdul R H ^a   Moissinac, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENEMA; FORMALDEHYDE; HEMOGLOBIN; HYDROCORTISONE; SUCRALFATE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHRONIC HEMORRHAGIC RADIATION PROCTITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAT TREATMENT; HUMAN; PROCTITIS; RADIATION INJURY; RECTUM BIOPSY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RECTAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, RECTAL; ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; COLONOSCOPY; ENEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCTITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STEROIDS; SUCRALFATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036886032     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-002-6529-8     Document Type: Article

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