Functional outcome in patients with advanced head and neck cancer: Surgery and reconstruction with free flaps versus primary radiochemotherapy

European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Volumn 269, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 629-638

  Tschiesner, Uta ^a   Schuster, Lena ^a   Strieth, Sebastian ^b   Harréus, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Free flap; Head and neck cancer; Outcome assessment; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; TAXANE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONING, DISABILITY AND HEALTH; MALE; MICROVASCULAR FREE FAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SWALLOWING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON QUALITY OF LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE; WORK; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASM STAGING; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84857058437     PISSN: 09374477     EISSN: 14344726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00405-011-1642-7     Document Type: Article

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