Swallowing function was evaluated with scintigraphy in 37 patients with head and neck cancer. The patients were examined before and during the course of either surgery, chemotherapy, and/or radiotherapy. A total of 118 scintigraphic studies were performed. Scintigraphic results of bolus flow and asp
Objective Assessment of Swallowing Function After Definitive Concurrent (Chemo)radiotherapy in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer
✍ Scribed by Jaiprakash Agarwal; Vijay Palwe; Debnarayan Dutta; Tejpal Gupta; Sarbani Ghosh Laskar; Ashwini Budrukkar; Vedang Murthy; Pankaj Chaturvedi; Prathamesh Pai; Devendra Chaukar; Anil K. D’Cruz; Suyash Kulkarni; Aniruddha Kulkarni; Gurmit Baccher; Shyam Kishore Shrivastava
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 242 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0179-051X
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