A randomized clinical trial with oral immunonutrition (ω3-enhanced formula vs. arginine-enhanced formula) in ambulatory head and neck cancer patients

Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 95-99

  De Luis, D A ^a   Izaola, O ^a   Aller, R ^a   Cuellar, L ^a   Terroba, M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Immunonutrition

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID;

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BODY FAT; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; LARYNX CANCER; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL WOUND; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AMBULATORY CARE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARGININE; ARM; BLOOD PROTEINS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20444446302     PISSN: 02506807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000084742     Document Type: Article

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