Maximum mouth opening and trismus in 143 patients treated for oral cancer: A 1-year prospective study

Head and Neck

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1754-1762

  Wetzels, Jan Willem G H ^a,b   Merkx, Matthias A W ^a   De Haan, Anton F J ^a   Koole, Ron ^b   Speksnijder, Caroline M ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Mouth neoplasms; Mouth opening; Radiotherapy; Risk factors; Trismus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANDIBLE TUMOR; MAXILLA TUMOR; MAXIMUM MOUTH OPENING; MOUTH CANCER; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MUSCLE FUNCTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRISMUS; TUMOR VOLUME; CARCINOMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TIME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRISMUS;

EID: 84912026998     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.23534     Document Type: Article

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