Long-term expression of fibrogenic cytokines in radiation-induced damage to the internal anal sphincter
Published inSwiss surgery, vol. 9, no. 4, p. 193-197
Publication date2003
Abstract
Keywords
- Adenocarcinoma/radiotherapy/surgery
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Anal Canal/pathology/radiation effects
- Connective Tissue Growth Factor
- Disease Progression
- Fibrosis/pathology/surgery
- Humans
- Immediate-Early Proteins/analysis
- Immunoenzyme Techniques
- Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/analysis
- Male
- Muscle, Smooth/pathology/radiation effects
- Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced/surgery
- Neoplasms, Second Primary/surgery
- Prostatic Neoplasms/radiotherapy
- Radiation Injuries/pathology
- Rectal Neoplasms/surgery
- Rectum/pathology/radiation effects/surgery
- Reoperation
- Transforming Growth Factor beta/analysis
- Transforming Growth Factor beta1
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GERVAZ, Pascal et al. Long-term expression of fibrogenic cytokines in radiation-induced damage to the internal anal sphincter. In: Swiss surgery, 2003, vol. 9, n° 4, p. 193–197. doi: 10.1024/1023-9332.9.4.193
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Identifiers
- PID : unige:45070
- DOI : 10.1024/1023-9332.9.4.193
- PMID : 12974179
ISSN of the journal1023-9332