Epidemiology and prevalence of oropharyngeal candidiasis in Spanish patients with head and neck tumors undergoing radiotherapy treatment alone or in combination with chemotherapy

Clinical and Translational Oncology

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 740-746

  Mañas, Ana ^a   Cerezo, Laura ^b   De La Torre, Alejandro ^c   García, Mariola ^d   Alburquerque, Héctor ^e   Ludeña, Blanca ^f   Ruiz, Ana ^g   Pérez, Ana ^h   Escribano, Ana ^a   Manso, Aurea ^a   Glaria, Luis Alberto ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE LA PRINCESA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DE HIERRO   (Spain)

^d Hospital Universitario Madrid Sanchinarro   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^f HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE FUENLABRADA   (Spain)

^g HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

^h Hospital UniversitarioFundación Jiménez Díaz   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cancer; Epidemiology; Oropharyngeal candidiasis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CAVITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OROPHARYNX CANDIDIASIS; PREVALENCE; SPAIN;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CANDIDIASIS, ORAL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OROPHARYNX; PREVALENCE; SPAIN;

EID: 84871263523     PISSN: 1699048X     EISSN: 16993055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12094-012-0861-8     Document Type: Article

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