Acupuncture for xerostomia: Clinical update

Cancer

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1151-1156

  Johnstone, Peter A S ^a,b   Niemtzow, Richard C ^a   Riffenburgh, Robert H ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Alternative and complementary therapies; Auriculotherapy; Cancer; Palliation; Xerostomia

Indexed keywords

PILOCARPINE;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EAR; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INDEX FINGER; LOZENGE; NEEDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; XEROSTOMIA;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 0037083397     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.10348     Document Type: Article

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