Abstract Seventeen patients with cancers of the rectum or distal sigmoid and considered inoperable because of old age, severe concomitant disease or advanced stage of malignancy, were treated endoscopically with the Nd YAG laser. Symptoms included rectal bleeding, obstruction, diarrhoea and incontin
Local control of rectal cancer with the Nd-YAG laser
β Scribed by H. Barr; N. Krasner
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 190 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0930-2794
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