Carotid stenosis after adjuvant cervical radiotherapy in patients with head and neck cancers: A prospective controlled study

Clinical Otolaryngology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 376-381

  Greco, A ^a   Gallo, A ^a   De Virgilio, A ^a   Marinelli, C ^a   Macri, G F ^a   Fusconi, M ^a   Pagliuca, G ^a   de Vincentiis, M ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION SICKNESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 84869855957     PISSN: 17494478     EISSN: 17494486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/coa.12007     Document Type: Article

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