A case of hepatic portal venous gas caused by chemo-radiation therapy for an advanced esophageal cancer

Japanese Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 105, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1504-1508

  Matsutani, Takeshi ^c   Sasajima, Koji ^c   Maruyama, Hiroshi ^c   Miyamoto, Masayuki ^c   Yokoyama, Tadashi ^c   Suzuki, Seiji ^c   Yanagi, Ken ^c   Kashiwabara, Moto ^c   Matsuda, Akihisa ^a   Tajiri, Takashi ^b  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL TAMA NAGAYAMA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FATALITY; HEPATIC PORTAL VENOUS GAS; HUMAN; LIVER DISEASE; MALE; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; AIR EMBOLISM; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PORTAL VEIN; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EMBOLISM, AIR; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PNEUMATOSIS CYSTOIDES INTESTINALIS; PORTAL VEIN;

EID: 58149157710     PISSN: 04466586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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