Argon plasma coagulation: In vivo tissue damage to the esophagus and stomach and clinical efficacy for early esophageal and gastric cancer

Digestive Endoscopy

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 21-27

  Mitsufuji, Shoji ^a   Nagoshi, Mariko ^a   Tatsumi, Yoichi ^a   Sakai, Miki ^a   Shiomi, Satoshi ^a   Wakabayashi, Naoki ^a   Konishi, Hideyuki ^a   Okano, Hitoshi ^a   Kataoka, Keisho ^a   Okanoue, Takeshi ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Argon plasma coagulation (APC); Early esophageal cancer; Early gastric cancer; Endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR); In vivo experiment

Indexed keywords

ARGON;

AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE CALCULATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ENDOSCOPIC MUCOSAL RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEAT INJURY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; NONHUMAN; POWER SUPPLY; PULSE RATE; RECURRENCE RISK; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH MUCOSA; TISSUE INJURY;

EID: 20044390006     PISSN: 09155635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1443-1661.2005.00424.x     Document Type: Article

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