The treatment of radiation necrosis with hyperbaric oxygen (OHP)
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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Radiation Necrosis
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO), the administration of 100% oxygen under high pressure, can improve the situation. Such therapy greatly increases the amount of oxygen availabile to tissue. This is due to the gaseous/fluid (oxygen/plasma) interface that enhances oxygen absorption and transportation into the liquid phase of the blood. Under such circumstances, repair of tissue damaged by high dos...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cancer
سال: 1976
ISSN: 0008-543X,1097-0142
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(197606)37:6<2580::aid-cncr2820370603>3.0.co;2-h