{A figure is presented}Relation between acute and late irradiation impairment of four basic tastes and irradiated tongue volume in patients with head-and-neck cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1422-1429

  Yamashita, Hideomi ^a   Nakagawa, Keiichi ^a   Nakamura, Naoki ^a   Abe, Keiko ^b   Asakage, Takahiro ^a   Ohmoto, Makoto ^b   Okada, Shinji ^b   Matsumoto, Ichiro ^b   Hosoi, Yoshio ^b   Sasano, Nakashi ^a   Yamakawa, Sen ^a   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 loss; Taste threshold

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

FILTER PAPER DISC; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; TASTE LOSS; TASTE THRESHOLD;

IRRADIATION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGEUSIA; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION INJURY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE BUD; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; TASTE DISORDER; TONGUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TASTE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TASTE; TASTE DISORDERS; TASTE THRESHOLD; TONGUE;

EID: 33751187648     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2006.08.037     Document Type: Article

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