A novel treatment for haemorrhagic radiation proctitis using colonic irrigation and oral antibiotic administration

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Sahakitrungruang, C ^a   Thum Umnuaysuk, S ^a   Patiwongpaisarn, A ^a   Atittharnsakul, P ^a   Rojanasakul, A ^a  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Oral antibiotic administration; Outcomes; Radiation induced haemorrhagic proctitis; Self administered colonic irrigation; Treatment

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; METRONIDAZOLE; TAP WATER;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON LAVAGE; DEFECATION; DEFECATION URGENCY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC RADIATION PROCTITIS; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION INJURY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; TENESMUS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER; VAGINA CANCER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CIPROFLOXACIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; METRONIDAZOLE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PROCTITIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY; THERAPEUTIC IRRIGATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79953300508     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2010.02527.x     Document Type: Article

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