Radiation-induced mucositis: A randomized clinical trial of micronized sucralfate versus salt & soda mouthwashes

Cancer Investigation

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 21-33

  Dodd, Marylin J ^a   Miaskowski, Christine ^a   Greenspan, Deborah ^a   MacPhail, Laurie ^a,b   Shih, Ai Shan ^a   Shiba, Gayle ^a,c   Facione, Noreen ^a   Paul, Steven M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CARBONATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCRALFATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG FORMULATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MALE; MOUTH HYGIENE; MOUTHWASH; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RATING SCALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMULSIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTHWASHES; ORAL HYGIENE; ORAL ULCER; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SODIUM BICARBONATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STOMATITIS; SUCRALFATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 0037215024     PISSN: 07357907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/CNV-120016400     Document Type: Article

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