Arterial infusion of 5-fluorouracil combined with concurrent radiotherapy for unresectable pancreatic cancer: Results from a pilot study

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 421-428

  Tanaka, Toshihiro ^a   Sakaguchi, Hiroshi ^a   Anai, Hiroshi ^a   Yamamoto, Kiyosei ^a   Morimoto, Kengo ^a   Tamamoto, Tetsuro ^a   Kichikawa, Kimihiko ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

5 fluorouracil; Arterial infusion; Chemoradiotherapy; Chemotherapy; Interventional radiology; Pancreatic cancer

Indexed keywords

CA 19-9 ANTIGEN; FLUOROURACIL; GEMCITABINE; HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN; LOPERAMIDE; RABEPRAZOLE; TROPISETRON;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DUODENUM ULCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; INOPERABLE CANCER; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; VOMITING;

AGED; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BIOPSY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; IOPAMIDOL; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34547602616     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.2279     Document Type: Article

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