The utility of hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat recurrent acute bowel obstruction after previous pelvic radiotherapy: A case series

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1797-1800

  Abu Asi, M J ^a   Andreyev, H J N ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bowel; Bowel obstruction; Gastrointestinal; Hyperbaric oxygen therapy; Late effects; Pelvic radiation disease; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BILE ACID SEQUESTRANT; CARBOPLATIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; LAXATIVE; METHOTREXATE; OXYGEN; PACLITAXEL; VINBLASTINE;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH; BLADDER CANCER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; CYSTECTOMY; DEFECATION URGENCY; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; DIET THERAPY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC CHAMBER; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; INTESTINE BYPASS; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LOW FAT DIET; MALABSORPTION; MALE; NAUSEA; OMENTECTOMY; OVARY ADENOCARCINOMA; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALPINGECTOMY; STEATORRHEA; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; PELVIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION INJURIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84878743940     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-013-1811-x     Document Type: Article

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