Palliative Treatment of Unresectable Esophagogastric Junction Tumors: Balloon Dilation Combined with Chemotherapy and/or Radiation Therapy and Metallic Stent Placement

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 912-917

  Kim, Jin Hyoung ^a   Song, Ho Young ^a   Shin, Ji Hoon ^a   Kim, Tae Won ^a   Kim, Kyung Rae ^a   Kim, Sung Bae ^a   Park, Seung Il ^a   Kim, Jong Hoon ^a   Choi, Eugene ^b  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DEVICE; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BALLOON DILATATION; BARIUM SULFATE; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONTRAST MEDIA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 44149107538     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2008.02.020     Document Type: Article

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