Treatment options for esophageal strictures

Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 142-152

  Siersema, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; IRIDIUM 192; STEROID; TRIAMCINOLONE;

BENIGN TUMOR; BRACHYTHERAPY; CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; ESOPHAGUS PROSTHESIS; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SICKNESS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; STENT; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

BRACHYTHERAPY; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DILATATION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGEAL STENOSIS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; HUMANS; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 40449098478     PISSN: 17434378     EISSN: 17434386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpgasthep1053     Document Type: Review

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