Percutaneous feeding tubes in patients with head and neck cancer: rethinking prophylactic placement for patients undergoing chemoradiation

American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 244-249

  Lawson, Joshua D ^a   Gaultney, Jennifer ^b   Saba, Nabil ^a   Grist, William ^a   Davis, Lawrence ^a   Johnstone, Peter A S ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; MANNITOL; PACLITAXEL; PLATINUM; RITUXIMAB; TAXANE DERIVATIVE;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEEDING APPARATUS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67649220023     PISSN: 01960709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjoto.2008.06.010     Document Type: Article

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