Dysphagia, stricture, and pneumonia in head and neck cancer patients: Does treatment modality matter?

Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 391-397

  Francis, David O ^a   Weymuller Jr , Ernest A ^a   Parvathaneni, Upendra ^a   Merati, Albert L ^a   Yueh, Bevan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dysphagia; Esophageal stricture; Head and neck cancer; Pneumonia; Treatment toxicity

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MOUTH CANCER; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE DATABASE; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 77953499757     PISSN: 00034894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000348941011900605     Document Type: Article

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