Diagnosis and management of skull base osteoradionecrosis after radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Laryngoscope

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1626-1631

  Huang, Xiao Ming ^a   Zheng, Yi Qing ^a   Zhang, Xiang Min ^a   Mai, Hai Qiang ^b   Zeng, Liang ^a   Liu, Xiang ^a   Liu, Wei ^a   Zou, Hua ^a   Xu, Geng ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Osteoradionecrosis; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE NECROSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPY; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; MALE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL BASE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; OSTEORADIONECROSIS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL BASE; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748541077     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000230435.71328.b9     Document Type: Article

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