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Complications of Surgery After Pelvic Radiation

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Radiation therapy is an important modality in the management of pelvic malignancies. Of cancer diagnosed in the year 2005, approximately 45% of male patients (prostate, rectal, bladder) and 25% of female patients (uterine, rectal, cervical, and bladder) had pelvic malignancies. More than half of all patients diagnosed with cancer receive radiation as part of their treatment.

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  1. Resident, Department of Urology, University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS, USA

    Eugene K. Lee MD

  2. Resident, Division of Radiation Oncology, Department of Urology, University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS, USA

    Darren Klish MD

  3. Department of Urology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA

    Jeffrey Holzbeierlein MD (Associate Professor)

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  1. Northwest Colon and Rectal Clinic, Madison Street 1101, Seattle, 98104, U.S.A.

    Richard P. Billingham

  2. Virginia Mason Medical Center, 9th Avenue 1100, Seattle, 98101, U.S.A.

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Lee, E.K., Klish, D., Holzbeierlein, J. (2009). Complications of Surgery After Pelvic Radiation. In: Billingham, R., Kobashi, K., Peters, W. (eds) Reoperative Pelvic Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/b14187_21

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