Neck treatment and shoulder morbidity: Still a challenge

Head and Neck

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1060-1067

  Bradley, Patrick J ^a   Ferlito, Alfio ^b   Silver, Carl E ^c   Takes, Robert P ^d   Woolgar, Julia A ^e   Strojan, Primož ^f   Suárez, Carlos ^g,h   Coskun, Hakan ⁱ   Zbären, Peter ^j   Rinaldo, Alessandra ^b  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^f INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^g HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

^h DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Spain)

ⁱ ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^j PSI   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

neck dissection; physical therapy; quality of life; rehabilitation; shoulder morbidity; spinal accessory nerve

Indexed keywords

CRANIAL NERVE; CRANIAL NERVE INJURY; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HUMEROSCAPULAR PERIARTHRITIS; MONITORING; MORBIDITY; NECK DISSECTION; NECK PAIN; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOTHERAPY; REHABILITATION; REVIEW; SHOULDER; SHOULDER PAIN; SPINAL ACCESSORY NERVE PALSY; SPINAL ACCESSORY ROOT;

ACCESSORY NERVE DISEASES; ACCESSORY NERVE INJURIES; BURSITIS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NECK DISSECTION; NECK PAIN; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOTHERAPY; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SHOULDER; SHOULDER JOINT;

EID: 79959254341     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.21495     Document Type: Review

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