Transoral robotic surgery for oropharyngeal cancer: Long-term quality of life and functional outcomes

JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1099-1108

  Dziegielewski, Peter T ^a,b   Teknos, Theodoros N ^a,b   Durmus, Kasim ^a,b   Old, Matthew ^a,b   Agrawal, Amit ^a,b   Kakarala, Kiran ^a,b,c   Marcinow, Anna ^a,b   Ozer, Enver ^a,b  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; EATING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEAD AND NECK CANCER INVENTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NECK DISSECTION; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PET-CT SCANNER; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; ROBOTICS; SPEECH; STOMACH TUBE; SWALLOWING; TRANSORAL ROBOTIC SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DEGLUTITION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH; NATURAL ORIFICE ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; ROBOTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84890490539     PISSN: 21686181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaoto.2013.2747     Document Type: Article

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