Weekly dose-volume parameters of mucosa and constrictor muscles predict the use of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy during exclusive intensity-modulated radiotherapy for oropharyngeal cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 52-59

  Sanguineti, Giuseppe ^a,b,d   Gunn, G Brandon ^a   Parker, Brent C ^a   Endres, Eugene J ^a   Zeng, Jing ^b   Fiorino, Claudio ^c  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose volume histogram; IMRT; PEG tube

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CUT-OFF VALUE; DOSE-VOLUME; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; DOSE-VOLUME PARAMETERS; FRACTIONATION SCHEDULES; HYPERFRACTIONATION; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; LOGISTIC ANALYSIS; MEAN DOSE; ODDS RATIOS; ORAL MUCOSA; OROPHARYNGEAL CANCER; PEG TUBE; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ENDOSCOPY; GRAPHIC METHODS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

PHYSICAL THERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; DYSPHAGIA; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH MUCOSA; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; STOMACH TUBE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; GASTROSTOMY; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL MUSCLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH MUCOSA; MUCOSITIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PHARYNGEAL MUSCLES; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 78650000237     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.10.057     Document Type: Article

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