Nonoperable patients with superficial esophageal cancer treated by photodynamic therapy after chemoradiotherapy have more severe complications than patients treated in primary intent

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 103, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2215-2219

  Lecleire, Stéphane ^a   Di Fiore, Frédéric ^a   Antonietti, Michel ^a   Ben Soussan, Emmanuel ^a   Hochain, Patrick ^a   Lerebours, Eric ^a   Michel, Pierre ^a   Ducrotté, Philippe ^a  

^a ROUEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; PHOTOFRIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DYE LASER; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SALVAGE THERAPY; SUPERFICIAL CANCER; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIHEMATOPORPHYRIN ETHER; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SALVAGE THERAPY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 50649114915     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2008.02042.x     Document Type: Article

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