Radiation-induced sequelae affecting the continence organ: Incidence, pathogenesis, and treatment

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1466-1474

  Petersen, Sven ^a   Jongen, Johannes ^b   Petersen, Cordula ^c   Sailer, Marco ^a  

^a Bethesda Alligemeines Krankenhaus Bergedorf   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complication; Incidence; Incontinence; Pathogenesis; Radiotherapy; Treatment

Indexed keywords

COBALT;

ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLITIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOSCOPY; FECES INCONTINENCE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MANOMETRY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATHOGENESIS; PROCTITIS; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION INJURY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

BALLOON DILATATION; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FECAL INCONTINENCE; GERMANY; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; INCIDENCE; LASER SURGERY; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION INJURIES;

EID: 34748900636     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-007-0296-4     Document Type: Article

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