Formalin application in the treatment of chronic radiation-induced hemorrhagic proctitis - An effective but not risk-free procedure: A prospective study of 33 patients

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1535-1541

  De Parades, Vincent ^a   Etienney, Isabelle ^a   Bauer, Pierre ^a   Bourguignon, Josée ^a   Meary, Nathalie ^a   Mory, Benoit ^a   Sultan, Samy ^a   Taouk, Milad ^a   Thomas, Christian ^a   Atienza, Patrick ^a  

^a GROUPE HOSPITALIER DIACONESSES CROIX SAINT SIMON   (France)

Author keywords

Anal incontinence; Anorectal stricture; Chronic radiation induced hemorrhagic proctitis; Formalin; Painful ulceration

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ANORECTAL DISEASE; ANUS CANCER; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG SAFETY; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FISTULA; HEMORRHAGIC COLITIS; HUMAN; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MALE; MORBIDITY; NECROSIS; PAIN; PERFORATION; PROCTITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION; RADIATION INJURY; RECTUM; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM DISEASE; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM ULCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANUS DISEASES; ANUS NEOPLASMS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTATICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCTITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION INJURIES; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETREATMENT; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 22744456992     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-005-0030-z     Document Type: Article

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