Practical approaches to effective management of intestinal radiation injury: Benefit of resectional surgery

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 17, Issue 35, 2011, Pages 4013-4016

  Perrakis, Nikolaos ^a   Athanassiou, Evangelos ^b   Vamvakopoulou, Dimitra ^b   Kyriazi, Maria ^a   Kappos, Haris ^a   Vamvakopoulos, Nikolaos C ^b   Nomikos, Iakovos ^a  

^a METAXA Cancer Memorial Hospital   (Greece)

^b University of Thessaly School of Medicine   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bowel; Pelvic neoplasms; Radiation injuries; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CECUM; DESCENDING COLON; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEUM; INTESTINE INJURY; INTESTINE RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVARY TUMOR; PELVIS CANCER; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION ENTEROPATHY; RADIATION INJURY; RECTUM; RECTUM TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA TUMOR; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; UTERUS TUMOR;

EID: 80054854020     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v17.i35.4013     Document Type: Article

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