Brachial plexopathy after chemoradiotherapy for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 186, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 517-520

  Platteaux, Nele ^a   Dirix, Piet ^a   Hermans, Robert ^a   Nuyts, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Brachial plexopathy; Chemoradiotherapy; Head and neck cancer; IMRT

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXOPATHY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MALE; MOUTH CARCINOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIDE EFFECT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR VOLUME;

BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 77957796704     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-010-2099-0     Document Type: Article

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