Taste intensity performance in patients irradiated to the head and neck

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 671-677

  Schwartz, Lisa K ^a   Weiffenbach, James M ^a   Valdez, Ingrid H ^a   Fox, Philip C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cancer; Intensity; Suprathreshold; Taste; Therapeutic radiation

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; QUININE SULFATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TASTE DISORDER;

ADULT; AGED; AGEUSIA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SALIVATION; TASTE THRESHOLD;

EID: 0027289583     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(93)90172-C     Document Type: Article

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