Treatment of Radiation Proctitis

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 724-729

  Leiper, K ^a   Morris, A I ^a  

^a ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chronic radiation proctitis; endoscopic thermal therapy; formalin; hyperbaric oxygen

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; BUTYRIC ACID; CORTICOSTEROID; ENEMA; FORMALDEHYDE; HYDROCORTISONE; MESALAZINE; METRONIDAZOLE; PLACEBO; PREDNISOLONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID; SUCRALFATE;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ANORECTAL DISEASE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLITIS; CYSTITIS; DEFECATION DISORDER; DIARRHEA; DRUG FEVER; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FECES INCONTINENCE; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; PAIN; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENTEROPATHY; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM PERFORATION; RECTUM ULCER; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; TENESMUS;

HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PELVIS; PROCTITIS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 34748868992     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2007.07.008     Document Type: Article

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