Aspiration occurence during chemoradiation for head and neck cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 27, Issue 3 B, 2007, Pages 1669-1672

  Nguyen, Nam P ^a   Smith, Herbert J ^b   Dutta, Suresh ^c   Alfieri, Alan ^d   North, Debra ^b   Nguyen, Phuc D ^b   Howard, L E E ^b   Martinez, Tomas ^b   Lemanski, Claire ^e   Ludin, Adir ^f   Nguyen, Ly M ^g   Sallah, Sabah ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA NORTH TEXAS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e CENTRE VAL D AURELLE   (France)

^f LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g ChemRisk   (United States)

^h NOVO NORDISK A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aspiration; Chemoradiation; Head and neck cancer; Pneumonia; Swallow

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWALLOWING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; RADIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORY ASPIRATION; RISK;

EID: 34249330694     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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