Healing of late endoscopic changes in the rectum between 12 and 65 months after external beam radiotherapy

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 202-205

  Goldner, Gregor ^a,c   Pötter, Richard ^a   Kranz, Alexander ^a   Bluhm, Alexandra ^a   Dörr, Wolfgang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Endoscopy; Prostate cancer; Radiotherapy; Rectum; Telangiectasia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE NECROSIS; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MALE; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION INJURY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM INJURY; RECTUM MUCOSA; RECTUM ULCER; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; TELANGIECTASIA; VIENNA RECTOSCOPY SCORE; WOUND HEALING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EDEMA; FOLLOW UP; INTESTINE MUCOSA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; PROCTITIS; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RECTUM; RECTUM DISEASE; ULCER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EDEMA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PROCTITIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTUM; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; TELANGIECTASIS; ULCER; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 79955671167     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-010-2211-5     Document Type: Article

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