Umami taste dysfunction in patients receiving radiotherapy for head and neck cancer

Oral Oncology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Yamashita, Hideomi ^a   Nakagawa, Keiichi ^a   Hosoi, Yoshio ^b   Kurokawa, Azusa ^c   Fukuda, Yusuke ^c   Matsumoto, Ichiro ^c   Misaka, Takumi ^c   Abe, Keiko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Radiotherapy; Taste loss; Umami taste; Whole mouth taste method

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGEUSIA; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TASTE; TASTE ACUITY; TREATMENT DURATION; UMAMI TASTE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; STOMATITIS; TASTE DISORDERS; VERY ELDERLY; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; STOMATITIS; TASTE; TASTE DISORDERS; TASTE THRESHOLD; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 60249100640     PISSN: 13688375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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