Feeding tubes and dysphagia: Cause or effect in head and neck cancer patients: Editorial

Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 431-432

  Corry, J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER PATIENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHAGIA; EDITORIAL; FEEDING APPARATUS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH TUBE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; GASTROSTOMY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70349785603     PISSN: 17549477     EISSN: 17549485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-9485.2009.02106.x     Document Type: Editorial

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