Surgical placement of biologic mesh spacers to displace bowel away from unresectable liver tumors followed by delivery of dose-intense radiation therapy

Practical Radiation Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 167-173

  Yoon, Sam S ^a   Aloia, Thomas A ^b   Haynes, Alex B ^b   Kambadakone, Avinash ^a   Kaur, Harmeet ^b   Vauthey, Jean Nicolas ^b   Ferrone, Cristina R ^a   Zhu, Andrew X ^a   Wo, Jennifer Y ^a   Crane, Christopher ^b   Hong, Theodore S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; GEMCITABINE; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BIOLOGICAL MESH SPACER; CANCER GROWTH; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL LIVER METASTASIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CONTROL; DUODENUM HEMATOMA; ESOPHAGUS METASTASIS; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FATIGUE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ILEUS; LAPAROSCOPIC ACCESS PORT; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER INJURY; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; OPERATION DURATION; PANCREAS METASTASIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL MESH; TUMOR VOLUME; COLON; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; RADIATION PROTECTION; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH; SURGERY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; COLON; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH; SURGICAL MESH;

EID: 84898805733     PISSN: 18798500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prro.2013.07.007     Document Type: Article

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