Trismus as a presenting symptom in nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 73-76

  Özyar, Enis ^a   Cengiz, Mustafa ^a   Gurkaynak, Murat ^a   Atahan, I Lale ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Prognostic factor; Radiotherapy; Trismus

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SIDE EFFECT; SYMPTOM; TRISMUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRISMUS;

EID: 27144465746     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2005.07.006     Document Type: Article

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