Incidence and risk factors of significant carotid artery stenosis in asymptomatic survivors of head and neck cancer after radiotherapy

Head and Neck

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 215-219

  Dorth, Jennifer A ^a   Patel, Pretesh R ^a   Broadwater, Gloria ^a   Brizel, David M ^a  

^a DUKE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

carotid artery stenosis; carotid ultrasound; cerebrovascular disease; head and neck cancer; radiation

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; HYPOCHOLESTEROLEMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVOR; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRAMINGHAM RISK SCORE; HAZARD RATIO; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT DURATION; VERY ELDERLY;

CAROTID ARTERY STENOSIS; CAROTID ULTRASOUND; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; RADIATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID STENOSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84892438427     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.23280     Document Type: Article

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