Chewing and swallowing after surgical treatment for oral cancer: Functional evaluation in 196 selected cases

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 329-338

  Nicoletti, Giovanni ^a   Soutar, David S ^b   Jackson, Mary S ^b   Wrench, Alan A ^b   Robertson, Gerry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTICATION; MOUTH CANCER; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SPEECH; SWALLOWING; TONGUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER STAGING; FOLLOW UP; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH TUMOR; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REHABILITATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEGLUTITION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MASTICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; MOUTH REHABILITATION; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SPEECH;

EID: 4344628419     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000131872.90767.50     Document Type: Article

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