Surgery for Radiation-Damaged Bowel
- 1 October 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Postgraduate Medicine
- Vol. 44 (4) , 98-103
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00325481.1968.11696401
Abstract
In about 1 to 2 percent of patients irradiated for abdominal tumors, the bowel is damaged. Months or years later there will be obstruction, bleeding or fistulas. The surgeon must then decide if recurrent tumor or radiation produces the symptoms. If radiation is responsible, he can usually cure the patient by resecting the involved bowel segment.Keywords
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