Practical approaches to effective management of intestinal radiation injury: Benefit of resectional surgery

Table 1 Clinical presentation and surgical management of radiation enteritis patients

Sex/age (yr)	Primary site of tumor	Radiation dose/period delivered (Gy/wk)	Dominant symptoms	Localization ofradiation lesions	Procedure	Morbidity/mortality	Follow-up(mo)
M/46	Prostate	70/7	Blood PR, pain	Rectosigmoid	Hartman Procedure	-/-	31
M/74	Prostate	72/6	Blood PR	Terminal Ileum	RC3	SWI6/-	25
F/71	Rectum	52/4	Pain, diarrhea	Terminal Ileum	RC	-/-	42
F/69	Rectum	50/4	Pain, vomiting	Terminal Ileum	RC	-/-	47
F/69	Rectum	52/4	Intestinal obstruction vomiting	Cecum	RC, ileostomy	-/-	56
F/83	Rectum	50/4	Intestinal obstruction vomiting	Terminal Ileum	RC	-/-	16
F/66	Urethra	52/5	Pain, diarrhea	Terminal Ileum	RC	Fecal fistula/-	72
M/74	SML	70/6	Pain, diarrhea	Descending colon	LC	-/-	8
M/70	Prostate	70/7	Intestinal obstruction vomiting	Terminal Ileum	RC	-/-	72
M/76	Prostate	70/6	Blood PR	Rectosigmoid	LAR	-/-	69
F/88	Cervix	54/4	Blood PR	Descending colon	LC	-/-	84
F/63	Cervix	54/4	Pain	Terminal Ileum	RC	-/-	79
F/54	Uterus	50/8	Pain, diarrhea	Terminal Ileum	RC	-/-	96
F/76	Uterus	50/5	Pain	Terminal Ileum	RC	-/-	12
F/51	Uterus	48/4	Pain	Terminal Ileum	RC	-/-	27
F/76	Ovaries	50/4	Blood PR	Terminal Ileum	RC	SWI/-	6
F/73	Uterus	54/4	Pain, diarrhea	Terminal Ileum	RC	-/-	14

M: Male; F: Female; SML: Spinal metastasis from lung cancer; PR: Per rectum; RC: Right colectomy; LC: Left colectomy; LAR: Low anterior resection; SWI: Surgical wound infection.