Early swallowing problems in a cohort of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Symptomatology and videofluoroscopic findings

Laryngoscope

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 142-146

  Ku, Peter K ^a   Yuen, Edmund H ^a   Cheung, Dilys M ^a   Chan, Becky Y ^a   Ahuja, Anil ^a   Leung, S F ^a   Tong, Michael C ^a,b   Van Hasselt, Andrew ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Complications; Dysphagia; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; HUMAN; JAW MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PERISTALSIS; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIDEORECORDING; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; CARCINOMA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEGLUTITION; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 33846046008     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000248738.55387.44     Document Type: Article

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