Late esophageal toxicity after radiation therapy for head and neck cancer

Head and Neck

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 178-183

  Chen, Allen M ^a   Li, Bao Qing ^a   Jennelle, Richard L S ^a   Lau, Derick H ^b   Yang, Claus C ^a   Courquin, Jean ^a   Vijayakumar, Srinivasan ^a   Purdy, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dysphagia; Head and neck cancer; Late toxicity; Radiation therapy; Swallowing

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; CISPLATIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS CANDIDIASIS; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROTOMY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX; INCIDENCE; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LARYNX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MOUTH CAVITY; NASOPHARYNX; NOSE CAVITY; OROPHARYNX; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARANASAL SINUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; ESOPHAGEAL STENOSIS; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; GASTROSTOMY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 74749108738     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.21164     Document Type: Article

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