Surgical management of malignant bowel obstruction: Strategies toward palliation of patients with advanced cancer

Current Oncology Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 287-292

  DeBernardo, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; FENTANYL; HALOPERIDOL; LORAZEPAM; METHADONE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; OCTREOTIDE; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; SCOPOLAMINE;

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CECOSTOMY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DRUG POTENTIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; GASTROTOMY; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROSCOPY; MALIGNANT INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MORBIDITY; NAUSEA; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OVARY CARCINOMA; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SENESCENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STENT; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VOMITING;

DECISION MAKING; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 67649389648     PISSN: 15233790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11912-009-0040-4     Document Type: Review

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