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Title: Treatment of radiation cystitis with hyperbaric oxygen

Abstract

A patient with severe radiation cystitis resistant to current therapy was treated with hyperbaric oxygen to facilitate closure of a vesicocutaneous fistula. In addition to the fistula healing, her symptoms of radiation cystitis have not recurred for over a year and a half.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookside Hospital, San Pablo, CA
OSTI Identifier:
5528624
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Urology (Ridgewood, N.J.); (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 3
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.; 62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE; FEMALE GENITALS; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOTHERAPY; SIDE EFFECTS; FISTULAE; INFLAMMATION; OXYGEN; PATIENTS; POST-IRRADIATION THERAPY; RADIATION INJURIES; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BODY; ELEMENTS; INJURIES; MEDICINE; NONMETALS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; ORGANS; PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOLOGY; SYMPTOMS; THERAPY; 560151* - Radiation Effects on Animals- Man; 550603 - Medicine- External Radiation in Therapy- (1980-)

Citation Formats

Schoenrock, G J, and Cianci, P. Treatment of radiation cystitis with hyperbaric oxygen. United States: N. p., 1986. Web. doi:10.1016/0090-4295(86)90289-X.
Schoenrock, G J, & Cianci, P. Treatment of radiation cystitis with hyperbaric oxygen. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/0090-4295(86)90289-X
Schoenrock, G J, and Cianci, P. 1986. "Treatment of radiation cystitis with hyperbaric oxygen". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/0090-4295(86)90289-X.
@article{osti_5528624,
title = {Treatment of radiation cystitis with hyperbaric oxygen},
author = {Schoenrock, G J and Cianci, P},
abstractNote = {A patient with severe radiation cystitis resistant to current therapy was treated with hyperbaric oxygen to facilitate closure of a vesicocutaneous fistula. In addition to the fistula healing, her symptoms of radiation cystitis have not recurred for over a year and a half.},
doi = {10.1016/0090-4295(86)90289-X},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5528624}, journal = {Urology (Ridgewood, N.J.); (United States)},
number = ,
volume = 3,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1986},
month = {Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1986}
}