Clinical implications of radionecrosis to the head and neck surgeon

Current Opinion in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 103-106

  Hunter, Shannon E ^a   Scher, Richard L ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; OXYGEN; STEROID;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BONE NECROSIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HEAD AND NECK DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMIDIFIER; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; LARYNX DISORDER; MANDIBLE; MANDIBLE RESECTION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MOUTH HYGIENE; PATHOGENESIS; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SKULL BASE; STEROID THERAPY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; OSTEORADIONECROSIS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0037378937     PISSN: 10689508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00020840-200304000-00007     Document Type: Review

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