Should older head and neck patients be treated differently?

European Annals of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Diseases

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 165-168

  Dequanter, D ^a   Shahla, M ^a   Paulus, P ^a   Boutremans, E ^a   Lothaire, P ^a  

^a Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Charleroi   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Elderly; Treatment; Upper aerodigestive tract cancer

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX; LARYNX; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MORBIDITY; MOUTH CARCINOMA; MOUTH CAVITY; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OROPHARYNX; PERITONITIS; PHARYNX CARCINOMA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEPTIC SHOCK; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STROKE; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 80052307058     PISSN: 18797296     EISSN: 1879730X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anorl.2010.12.009     Document Type: Article

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