Delayed lower cranial neuropathies following primary radiotherapy for oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma

Laryngoscope

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1207-1209

  Huang, Andrew T ^a,c   Song, Shiyu ^b   Dominguez, Laura M ^a   Nguyen, Josephine ^a   Goldman, Richard A ^a   Reiter, Evan R ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cranial neuropathy; intensity modulated radiation therapy; Oropharyngeal cancer; radiation

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; LOWER CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TONGUE DISEASE; TRACHEOTOMY; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OROPHARYNX TUMOR; RADIATION INJURY;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879301001     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.23938     Document Type: Article

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