Swallowing ability, food intake, and nutritional status in head and neck cancer.

Treatment of head and neck cancer has considerable impact on food intake and dependence on tube feeding due to chronic dysphagia. Therefore the association of swallowing therapy (SPT) with swallowing ability, nutritional status (weight loss 5% per month) and food intake (quality and quantity) of hea...

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Publicado en:Compendium of Human Ecology Researches in the Philippines (2003 - 2013), 73
Autor Principal: Van Den Berg, M. G. A.
Outros autores: Padilla, L. M., Rasmussen-Conrad, E. L., Merkx, M. A. W.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:English
Publicado: 2003
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