Quality of life, functional outcome, and costs of early glottic cancer

Laryngoscope

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 68-76

  Smith, Jonathan C ^a   Johnson, Jonas T ^a   Cognetti, David M ^a   Landsittel, Douglas P ^a   Gooding, William E ^a   Cano, Elmer R ^a   Myers, Eugene N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Early glottic cancer; Functional outcome; Hidden costs; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; DATA BASE; DYSPHAGIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FISHER EXACT TEST; GLOTTIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTICATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT INFORMATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANK SUM TEST; SPEECH DISORDER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASTE DISORDER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; COST OF ILLNESS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY; REGISTRIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037220961     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200301000-00013     Document Type: Article

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