Does chronic radiation enteritis pose a diagnostic challenge? A report of three cases

Hong Kong Medical Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 327-330

  Hussain, Abdulzahra ^a   Mahmood, Hind ^a   Thomas, Adrian ^a   Frazer, Claire ^a   El Hasani, Shamsi ^a  

^a Princess Royal University Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Enteritis; Intestine, small; Radiation injuries

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROCTITIS; RADIATION ENTEROPATHY; RADIOLOGY; RECTUM BIOPSY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SEMINOMA; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; X RAY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE, SMALL; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION INJURIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 49449106702     PISSN: 10242708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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