Methods of functional outcomes assessment following treatment of oral and oropharyngeal cancer: Review of the literature

Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 2-10

  Mlynarek, Alex M ^a   Rieger, Jana M ^a   Harris, Jeffrey R ^a   O'Connell, Daniel A ^a   Al Qahtani, Khalid H ^a   Ansari, Khalid ^a   Chau, Jason ^a   Seikaly, Hadi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer swallowing; Functional outcomes; Head and neck; Oral; Oropharyngeal; Quality of life; Speech; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; MOUTH CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PATIENT CARE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SPEECH; SWALLOWING; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CONVALESCENCE; MOUTH TUMOR; OROPHARYNX TUMOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT;

HUMANS; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 48649088533     PISSN: 19160216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7070.2008.1001     Document Type: Review

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