Randomized comparison of three palliative regimens including brachytherapy, photodynamic therapy, and APC in patients with malignant dysphagia (CONSORT 1a) (Revised II)

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 106, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1612-1620

  Rupinski, MacIej ^a   Zagorowicz, Edyta ^a   Regula, Jaroslaw ^a   Fijuth, Jacek ^a   Kraszewska, Ewa ^a   Polkowski, Marcin ^a   Wronska, Ewa ^a   Butruk, Eugeniusz ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS HEMORRHAGE; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PAIN; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIVITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECANALIZATION; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEMATOPORPHYRINS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RECURRENCE;

EID: 80052431691     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2011.178     Document Type: Article

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