Risk factors for percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube placement during chemoradiotherapy for oropharyngeal cancer

JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1242-1246

  Strom, Tobin ^a   Trotti, Andy M ^a   Kish, Julie ^a   Rao, Nikhil G ^a   McCaffrey, Judith ^a   Padhya, Tapan A ^a   Lin, Hui Yi ^a   Fulp, William ^a   Caudell, Jimmy J ^a  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH TUBE; TUBE REMOVAL; VERY ELDERLY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; FLORIDA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROSTOMY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84892416913     PISSN: 21686181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaoto.2013.5193     Document Type: Article

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