Acute diarrhea during pelvic irradiation: Is small-bowel volume effect different in gynecologic patients with prior abdomen operation or not?

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 118-125

  Huang, Eng Yen ^a,b   Hsu, Hsuan Chih ^a   Yang, Kuender D ^b   Lin, Hao ^a   Wang, Feng Sheng ^b   Sun, Li Min ^a   Tsai, Ching Chou ^a   Changchien, Chan Chao ^a   Wang, Chong Jong ^a  

^a Chang Gung Memorial Hosptial Kaohsiung Medical Center   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Diarrhea; Gynecologic malignancies; Pelvic irradiation; Small bowel; Volume effect

Indexed keywords

BARIUM;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ACUTE DIARRHEA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SIMULATION; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; FILM; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGAN SIZE; PATIENT; PELVIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; SMALL INTESTINE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER;

EID: 15544374378     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2004.12.028     Document Type: Article

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