Dysphagia in head and neck cancer

Cancer Treatment Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 724-732

  Manikantan, Kapila ^a   Khode, Shailesh ^a   Sayed, Suhail I ^a   Roe, Justin ^b   Nutting, Chris M ^b   Rhys Evans, Peter ^b   Harrington, Kevin J ^b   Kazi, Rehan ^b  

^a SIR J J GROUP OF HOSPITALS   (India)

^b Head and Neck Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemoradiation; Dysphagia; Head and neck cancer

Indexed keywords

AMIFOSTINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BICARBONATE; CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; CHLORHEXIDINE; FLUOROURACIL; GLYCEROL; MAGNESIUM HYDROXIDE; METHOTREXATE; MUCIN; PILOCARPINE; POLYMETHACRYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SALIVA SUBSTITUTE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; XANTHAN; ZINC;

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DENTAL CARE; DIET RESTRICTION; DYSGEUSIA; DYSPHAGIA; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EXERCISE; FATIGUE; GLOSSECTOMY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; JAW MALFORMATION; LARYNGECTOMY; LASER SURGERY; MANDIBLE RECONSTRUCTION; MOUTH HYGIENE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NEUTROPENIA; ORAL SURGERY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHARYNX RECONSTRUCTION; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION PROTECTION; REVIEW; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SKULL SURGERY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SWALLOWING; SYMPTOM; TOOTH PROSTHESIS; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEAKNESS; XEROSTOMIA;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DEGLUTITION; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNGOSCOPY; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 70450269276     PISSN: 03057372     EISSN: 15321967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctrv.2009.08.008     Document Type: Review

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