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Section 2 - Gastrointestinal System

from Part 3 - Systems Based Overview of Cancer Complications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2023

Monica Kathleen Wattana
Monica Kathleen Wattana
Affiliation:
University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center
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Summary

Overview of gastrointestinal complications including constipation, diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting, feeding tube complications, bowel perforation and obstruction, and neutropenic enterocolitis

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constipationdiarrheanauseavomitingbowel obstructionmesenteric ischemiatyphlitismucositis
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Pocket Guide to Oncologic Emergencies , pp. 97 - 142
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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