Timing of esophageal dilation for dysphagia in head and neck cancer patients receiving radiation therapy

Laryngoscope

Volumn 120, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2010, Pages

  Cho, Allis H ^a   Caldito, Gloria ^b   Nathan, Cherie Ann O ^a,c  

^a Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery ^*  (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BOUGIE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRICOPHARYNGEUS MUSCLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LARYNGECTOMY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MYOTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE;

BALLOON DILATION; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78651450852     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.21609     Document Type: Conference Paper

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