Assessment of problems with appearance, following surgery for oral and oro-pharyngeal cancer using the University of Washington appearance domain and the Derriford appearance scale

Oral Oncology

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 927-934

  Katre, C ^a   Johnson, I A ^b   Humphris, G M ^c   Lowe, D ^a   Rogers, S N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AINTREE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Appearance; DAS 24; Head and neck cancer; Mouth neoplasm; Questionnaires; UWQOL

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DERRIFORD APPEARANCE SCALE; FACIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; ORAL SURGERY; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFERENCE DATABASE; SCORING SYSTEM; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON QUALITY OF LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE VERSION 4;

ADULT; AGED; BODY IMAGE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASTICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 51649121341     PISSN: 13688375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2007.12.006     Document Type: Article

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