Use of 660-nm diode laser in the prevention and treatment of human oral mucositis induced by radiotherapy and chemotherapy

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 233-237

  Zanin, Taís ^a,b   Zanin, Fatima ^c   Carvalhosa, Artur Aburad ^b   De Souza Castro, Paulo Henrique ^b   Pacheco, Marcos Tadeu ^c   Zanin, Iriana Carla Junqueira ^d   Brugnera, Aldo ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA E DESENVOLVIMENTO   (Brazil)

^b Instituto Federal de Mato Grosso   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE CAMILO CASTELO BRANCO   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL GROUPS; CONVENTIONAL DRUGS; DIODE LASERS; HEAD AND NECK; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; LASER THERAPY; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; ORAL LESIONS; ORAL MUCOSITIS; PAIN RELIEF; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPOT SIZES; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; TOXIC EFFECT; WOUND REPAIR;

CHEMOTHERAPY; DIODES; HEALTH; LASER TISSUE INTERACTION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIODE LASER; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION INJURY; STOMATITIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION INJURIES; STOMATITIS;

EID: 77953919129     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2008.2242     Document Type: Article

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