Taste dysfunction in patients receiving radiotherapy

Head and Neck

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 508-516

  Yamashita, Hideomi ^a   Nakagawa, Keiichi ^a   Tago, Masao ^a   Nakamura, Naoki ^a   Shiraishi, Kenshiro ^a   Eda, Momoe ^b   Nakata, Hiroki ^b   Nagamatsu, Nami ^b   Yokoyama, Rika ^b   Onimura, Mayuko ^b   Ohtomo, Kuni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Filter paper disc; Head and neck cancer; Radiotherapy; Taste bud; Taste changes; Taste dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE BUD; TASTE DISORDER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY; TASTE BUDS; TASTE DISORDERS; TASTE THRESHOLD;

EID: 33744918282     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20347     Document Type: Article

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