Role of videofluorography in assessing functional abnormalities in patients of head and neck cancer treated with chemoradiotherapy

Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 264-269

  Lal, Punita ^a   Tiwari, Anu ^a   Verma, Ashish ^b   Maria Das, Koilpillai Joseph ^a   Baijal, Sanjay Sharan ^b   Bajpai, Ranjeet ^a   Kumar, Pavan ^a   Srivastava, Anurita ^a   Kumar, Shaleen ^a  

^a Departments of Radiotherapy   (India)

^b SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Chemoradiotherapy; Head and neck cancer; Videofluorography

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; MANNITOL;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY SITE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; FLUOROGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYDRATION; HYPOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CARCINOMA; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEOFLUOROGRAPHY; VOMITING;

EID: 71649110185     PISSN: 17437555     EISSN: 17437563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-7563.2009.01241.x     Document Type: Article

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