Treatment of medium and late stage esophageal carcinoma with combined endoscopic metal stenting and radiotherapy

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 24-28

  Zhong, Jie ^a   Wu, Yunlin ^a   Xu, Zhen ^a   Liu, Xiaotian ^a   Xu, Bin ^a   Zhai, Zukang ^a  

^a SHANGHAI SECOND MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Endoscopy; Esophageal carcinoma; Metal stent; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; MORPHINE; SEDATIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYSPHAGIA; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; MALE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; STENT; SURVIVAL RATE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX PAIN; THROAT DISEASE;

AGED; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; STENTS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0037256413     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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