A comparison of wound treatments in nasopharyngeal cancer patients receiving radiation therapy

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 436-445

  Mak, S S ^a   Zee, C Y ^b   Molassiotis, A ^c   Chan, S J ^a   Leung, S F ^a   Mo, K F ^b   Johnson, P J ^d  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gentian violet; Irradiation skin reaction; Moist desquamation; Nonadherent absorbent dressing; Radiation; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL VIOLET; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRRADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD CHANGE; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; NECK PAIN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; WOUND; WOUND CARE; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BANDAGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNX TUMOR; NURSING; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DERMATITIS; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOTHERAPY; SKIN CARE; STANDARD; TIME;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BANDAGES; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; GENTIAN VIOLET; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIODERMATITIS; RADIOTHERAPY; SKIN CARE; TIME FACTORS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33644874070     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002820-200511000-00005     Document Type: Article

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