Swallowing function in patients with base of tongue cancers treated with primary surgery and reconstructed with a modified radial forearm free flap

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 857-864

  O'Connell, Daniel Ambrose ^a   Rieger, Jana ^a,b   Harris, Jeffrey Richard ^a   Dziegielewski, Peter ^a   Zalmanowitz, Jana ^b   Sytsanko, Anna ^b   Li, Shirley ^a   Wolfaardt, John ^a,b   Hart, Robert D ^a   Seikaly, Hadi ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Misericordia Community Hospital   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIAL FOREARM FLAP; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWALLOWING; TONGUE CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; BIOMECHANICS; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOSSECTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RESPIRATORY ASPIRATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; TONGUE; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 49949119581     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 08864470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.134.8.857     Document Type: Article

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