Malignant respiratory-digestive fistulas

Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 329-333

  Rodriguez, Alicia N ^a   Diaz Jimenez, Jose P ^b  

^a Clínica Colón   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Malignant bronchoesophageal fistula; Malignant respiratory digestive fistula; Malignant tracheoesophageal fistula

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

BLEEDING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; ESOPHAGOBRONCHIAL FISTULA; ESOPHAGOGASTROSTOMY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; RESTENOSIS; REVIEW; STENT; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; TUMOR GROWTH; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BRONCHIAL FISTULA; COMPLICATION; ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; GASTROSTOMY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PROCEDURES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPIRATORY TRACT NEOPLASMS;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BRONCHIAL FISTULA; ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; GASTROSTOMY; HUMANS; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORY TRACT NEOPLASMS; STENTS; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; BEVACIZUMAB;

EID: 77953636836     PISSN: 10705287     EISSN: 15316971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCP.0b013e3283390de8     Document Type: Review

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