Antioxidant agents: A future alternative approach in the prevention and treatment of radiation-induced oral mucositis?

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 36-41

  Cuba, Letícia de Freitas ^a   Salum, Fernanda ^a   Cherubini, Karen ^a   de Figueiredo, Maria Antonia Zancanaro ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT;

ADVERSE EFFECTS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMAN; RADIATION INJURIES; STOMATITIS;

ANTIOXIDANTS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY; STOMATITIS;

EID: 84930814053     PISSN: 10786791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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