Impact of early percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube placement on nutritional status and hospitalization in patients with head and neck cancer receiving definitive chemoradiation therapy

Head and Neck

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1441-1447

  Rutter, Charles E ^a   Yovino, Susannah ^b   Taylor, Rodney ^a   Wolf, Jeffrey ^a   Cullen, Kevin J ^a   Ord, Robert ^c   Athas, Mindy ^a   Zimrin, Ann ^a   Strome, Scott ^a   Suntharalingam, Mohan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND GREENEBAUM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

chemoradiation; gastrostomy tube; nutrition; radiation

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; PACLITAXEL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EARLY INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MOUTH CANCER; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; NOSE CANCER; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH TUBE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROSTOMY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 80053032091     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.21624     Document Type: Article

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