Functional outcomes after transoral robotic surgery for head and neck cancer

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 166-171

  Iseli, Tim A ^a,b   Kulbersh, Brian D ^a   Iseli, Claire E ^b   Carroll, William R ^a   Rosenthal, Eben L ^a   Magnuson, J Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b Western Hospital   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; DYSPHAGIA; EDEMA; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEEDING APPARATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OROPHARYNX CANCER; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; ROBOTICS; SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWALLOWING; TRACHEOSTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DEGLUTITION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; ORAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RISK FACTORS; ROBOTICS; SALVAGE THERAPY;

EID: 67651064639     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2009.05.014     Document Type: Article

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