Delayed sino-nasal complications of radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (United States)

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 354-358

  Alon, Eran E ^a   Lipschitz, Noga ^a   Bedrin, Lev ^a   Gluck, Iris ^b   Talmi, Yoav ^a   Wolf, Michael ^a   Yakirevitch, Arkadi ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

choanal stenosis; chronic sinusitis; nasopharyngeal carcinoma; NPC; osteoradionecrosis; quality of life; radiotherapy; synechiae

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE NECROSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CHOANA ATRESIA; CHRONIC SINUSITIS; DELAYED SINO NASAL COMPLICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRANASAL SYNECHIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; OSTEORADIONECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINUSITIS; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION;

ADULT; CARCINOMA; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; OSTEORADIONECROSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINUSITIS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84904865654     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0194599814530858     Document Type: Article

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