Toxicities and costs of placing prophylactic and reactive percutaneous gastrostomy tubes in patients with locally advanced head and neck cancers treated with chemoradiotherapy

Head and Neck

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1155-1161

  Baschnagel, Andrew M ^a   Yadav, Siddhartha ^b   Marina, Ovidiu ^a   Parzuchowski, Aaron ^a   Lanni, Thomas B ^a   Warner, Jillian N ^a   Parzuchowski, Jeanne S ^b   Ignatius, Renjitha T ^b   Akervall, Jan ^b   Chen, Peter Y ^a   Krauss, Daniel J ^a  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY WILLIAM BEAUMONT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube; prophylactic PEG tube; reactive PEG tube

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CANCER OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY SITE; CANCER PATIENT; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEHYDRATION; DEVICE INFECTION; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MOUTH CARCINOMA; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PAIN; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLACTIC PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY TUBE; PROPHYLAXIS; REACTIVE PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY TUBE; STOMACH FISTULA; STOMACH TUBE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COST; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DEVICES; ECONOMICS; ENTERIC FEEDING; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROSTOMY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; GASTROSTOMY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84904247150     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.23426     Document Type: Article

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