Taste dysfunction in head and neck cancer survivors

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  McLaughlin, Laura ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; ONCOLOGY NURSING; OUTPATIENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; RADIATION INJURY; STATISTICS; SURVIVOR; TASTE; TASTE DISORDER;

AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; OUTPATIENTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; RADIATION INJURIES; SURVIVORS; TASTE DISORDERS; TASTE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84874636840     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/13.ONF.E4-E13     Document Type: Article

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