Taste alteration and impact on quality of life after head and neck radiotherapy

Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 106-112

  Baharvand, M ^a   Shoalehsaadi, N ^a   Barakian, R ^a   Jalali Moghaddam, E ^b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Disgeusia; Head neck cancer; Quality of life; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; QUININE SULFATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUGAR;

ADULT; AGED; AGEUSIA; ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DYSGEUSIA; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; INTERVIEW; LIP CANCER; MALE; MANDIBLE CANCER; MAXILLA CANCER; MOUTH CANCER; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PAROTID GLAND CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SWEETNESS; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; TASTE DISORDER; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; AGED; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; DYSGEUSIA; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871934281     PISSN: 09042512     EISSN: 16000714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0714.2012.01200.x     Document Type: Article

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