Thyroid function should be monitored following radiotherapy to the low neck

American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 255-258

  Garcia Serra, Allie ^a   Amdur, Robert J ^a   Morris, Christopher G ^a   Mazzaferri, Ernest ^a   Mendenhall, William M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Neck neoplasms; Radiotherapy; Thyroid; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FLORIDA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20444401169     PISSN: 02773732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.coc.0000145985.64640.ac     Document Type: Article

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