Construction of an omental envelope as a method of excluding the small intestine from the field of postoperative irradiation to the pelvis.

Authors :: DeLuca FR
Ragins H
Source :: Surgery, gynecology & obstetrics [Surg Gynecol Obstet] 1985 Apr; Vol. 160 (4), pp. 365-6.
Publication Year :: 1985
Abstract: A technique for excluding the small intestine from the true pelvis in order to permit high dose radiotherapy is described herein. The procedure is done postoperatively after incomplete resection for carcinoma of the colon and rectum.

Subjects :: Colonic Neoplasms surgery
Combined Modality Therapy
Humans
Pelvis
Radiotherapy Dosage
Rectal Neoplasms surgery
Colonic Neoplasms radiotherapy
Intestine, Small radiation effects
Omentum surgery
Radiation Protection methods
Rectal Neoplasms radiotherapy

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