Risk factors for aspiration pneumonia after definitive chemoradiotherapy or bio-radiotherapy for locally advanced head and neck cancer: a monocentric case control study

BACKGROUND: Chemoradiotherapy (CRT) and bio-radiotherapy (BRT) are recognized as standard therapies for head and neck cancer (HNC). Aspiration pneumonia after CRT or BRT is a common late adverse event. Our aim in this study was to evaluate the cause-specific incidence of aspiration pneumonia after C...

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Published in:BMC Cancer
Main Authors: Kawai, Sadayuki, Yokota, Tomoya, Onozawa, Yusuke, Hamauchi, Satoshi, Fukutomi, Akira, Ogawa, Hirofumi, Onoe, Tsuyoshi, Onitsuka, Tetsuro, Yurikusa, Takashi, Todaka, Akiko, Tsushima, Takahiro, Yoshida, Yukio, Kito, Yosuke, Mori, Keita, Yasui, Hirofumi
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5241959/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28095814
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-017-3052-8
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