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    Complications of combined intraoperative radiation (IORT) and external radiation (ERT) of the upper abdomen: An experimental model.
        
        Radiother. Oncol. 38, 205-214 (1996)
    
    
    
	    An experimental model in the rabbit is presented which is suitable for analysis of clinically relevant, early side-effects of combined upper abdominal IORT and ERT. Fractionated ERT alone given through an upper abdominal a.-p. field including the entire stomach caused gastric ulcerations within < or = 58 days. Latent times decreased with increasing dose and the ED50 for occurrence of ulcers was 39 +/- 3.3 Gy. Single doses of IORT of 20-40 Gy alone administered through a 2-cm diameter field localized on the coeliac axis and carefully excluding any intestinal mucosa caused neither gastric ulcerations nor other clinical symptoms. When ERT with 40 Gy was preceded by IORT with 20-40 Gy or by sham IORT, 13 out of 15 animals developed ulcers after latent times which in a life-table analysis were shown to be significantly shorter than after ERT alone. However, a statistically significant IORT dose-dependence of latent time or incidence of ulcers could not be demonstrated in the present experiment. The most significant histological changes were observed in the areas of gastric ulcers. Already during ERT, the mucosal epithelium was depleted and regenerative activity was evident in spite of ongoing fractionated irradiation. However, profound irregularities in glandular structure and distribution, as well as number of proliferating epithelial cells were still present in healed ulcers at 80 days. In summary, IORT to the coeliac artery did precipitate the development of gastric ulcers induced by subsequent ERT. On the one hand, the data indicate that the surgical procedure of IORT did contribute to this effect. On the other hand, IORT to the coeliac artery could cause transient, functional alterations in blood supply to the depending organs, i.e. the stomach, and could thus precipitate the development of radiation-induced ulcers.
	
	
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        Publication type
        Article: Journal article
    
 
    
        Document type
        Scientific Article
    
 
     
    
    
        Keywords
        IORT; upper abdominal ERT; radiation injury to gastric mucosa; gastric ulceration; radiation effect on arteries; MUCOSAL BLOOD-FLOW; PEPTIC-ULCER; IRRADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY; STOMACH; THERAPY; CARCINOMA; PANCREAS; CANCER; TRIAL
    
 
     
    
    
        Language
        english
    
 
    
        Publication Year
        1996
    
 
     
    
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        ISSN (print) / ISBN
        0167-8140
    
 
    
        e-ISSN
        1879-0887
    
 
    
     
     
	     
	 
	 
    
        Journal
        Radiotherapy and Oncology
    
 
	
    
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	    Volume: 38,  
	    Issue: 3,  
	    Pages: 205-214 
	    
	    
	
    
 
    
         
        
            Publisher
            Elsevier
        
 
         
	
         
         
         
         
         
	
         
         
         
    
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
    
        Reviewing status
        Peer reviewed
    
 
    
        Institute(s)
        Institute of Radiation Biology (ISB)
Department for Medical Information Systems (MEDIS)
Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management (IGM)
 
     
     
     
     
     	
    Department for Medical Information Systems (MEDIS)
Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management (IGM)
        PubMed ID
        8693100
    
    
    
        WOS ID
        WOS:A1996UB86800003
    
    
        Scopus ID
        17344380308
    
    
        Erfassungsdatum
        1996-12-31