Self-expandable esophageal stent loaded with 125I seeds: Initial experience in patients with advanced esophageal cancer

Radiology

Volumn 247, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 574-581

  Guo, Jin He ^a   Teng, Gao Jun ^a   Zhu, Guang Yu ^a   He, Shi Cheng ^a   Fang, Wen ^a   Deng, Gang ^a   Li, Guo Zhao ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; IOHEXOL; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BLEEDING; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; STENT; SURVIVAL TIME; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; FLUOROSCOPY; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTHESIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CONTRAST MEDIA; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 44449128964     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2472070999     Document Type: Article

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