Letter to the Editor concerning the article “Application of red light phototherapy in the treatment of radioactive dermatitis in patients with head and neck cancer”

The aim of this Letter to the Editor was to report some methodological shortcomings in the recently published article “Application of red light phototherapy in the treatment of radioactive dermatitis in patients with head and neck cancer” by Zhang et al. There are some issues regarding the incomplet...

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Autores principales: Robijns, Jolien, Censabella, Sandrine, Claes, Stefan, Pannekoeke, Luc, Bussé, Lore, Colson, Dora, Kaminski, Iris, Broux, Victoria, Lodewijckx, Joy, Puts, Sofie, Bulens, Paul, Maes, Annelies, Noé, Leen, Brosens, Marc, Timmermans, An, Lambrichts, Ivo, Somers, Veerle, Mebis, Jeroen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6431425/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30904020
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-019-1603-y
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author Robijns, Jolien
Censabella, Sandrine
Claes, Stefan
Pannekoeke, Luc
Bussé, Lore
Colson, Dora
Kaminski, Iris
Broux, Victoria
Lodewijckx, Joy
Puts, Sofie
Bulens, Paul
Maes, Annelies
Noé, Leen
Brosens, Marc
Timmermans, An
Lambrichts, Ivo
Somers, Veerle
Mebis, Jeroen
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Censabella, Sandrine
Claes, Stefan
Pannekoeke, Luc
Bussé, Lore
Colson, Dora
Kaminski, Iris
Broux, Victoria
Lodewijckx, Joy
Puts, Sofie
Bulens, Paul
Maes, Annelies
Noé, Leen
Brosens, Marc
Timmermans, An
Lambrichts, Ivo
Somers, Veerle
Mebis, Jeroen
author_sort Robijns, Jolien
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description The aim of this Letter to the Editor was to report some methodological shortcomings in the recently published article “Application of red light phototherapy in the treatment of radioactive dermatitis in patients with head and neck cancer” by Zhang et al. There are some issues regarding the incomplete photobiomodulation (PBM) parameters, the chosen outcome measures, and some missing reference articles. In conclusion, the results of this study should be interpreted with caution and further research is necessary.
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spelling pubmed-64314252019-04-04 Letter to the Editor concerning the article “Application of red light phototherapy in the treatment of radioactive dermatitis in patients with head and neck cancer” Robijns, Jolien Censabella, Sandrine Claes, Stefan Pannekoeke, Luc Bussé, Lore Colson, Dora Kaminski, Iris Broux, Victoria Lodewijckx, Joy Puts, Sofie Bulens, Paul Maes, Annelies Noé, Leen Brosens, Marc Timmermans, An Lambrichts, Ivo Somers, Veerle Mebis, Jeroen World J Surg Oncol Correspondence The aim of this Letter to the Editor was to report some methodological shortcomings in the recently published article “Application of red light phototherapy in the treatment of radioactive dermatitis in patients with head and neck cancer” by Zhang et al. There are some issues regarding the incomplete photobiomodulation (PBM) parameters, the chosen outcome measures, and some missing reference articles. In conclusion, the results of this study should be interpreted with caution and further research is necessary. BioMed Central 2019-03-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6431425/ /pubmed/30904020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-019-1603-y Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
spellingShingle Correspondence
Robijns, Jolien
Censabella, Sandrine
Claes, Stefan
Pannekoeke, Luc
Bussé, Lore
Colson, Dora
Kaminski, Iris
Broux, Victoria
Lodewijckx, Joy
Puts, Sofie
Bulens, Paul
Maes, Annelies
Noé, Leen
Brosens, Marc
Timmermans, An
Lambrichts, Ivo
Somers, Veerle
Mebis, Jeroen
Letter to the Editor concerning the article “Application of red light phototherapy in the treatment of radioactive dermatitis in patients with head and neck cancer”
title Letter to the Editor concerning the article “Application of red light phototherapy in the treatment of radioactive dermatitis in patients with head and neck cancer”
title_full Letter to the Editor concerning the article “Application of red light phototherapy in the treatment of radioactive dermatitis in patients with head and neck cancer”
title_fullStr Letter to the Editor concerning the article “Application of red light phototherapy in the treatment of radioactive dermatitis in patients with head and neck cancer”
title_full_unstemmed Letter to the Editor concerning the article “Application of red light phototherapy in the treatment of radioactive dermatitis in patients with head and neck cancer”
title_short Letter to the Editor concerning the article “Application of red light phototherapy in the treatment of radioactive dermatitis in patients with head and neck cancer”
title_sort letter to the editor concerning the article “application of red light phototherapy in the treatment of radioactive dermatitis in patients with head and neck cancer”
topic Correspondence
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6431425/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30904020
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-019-1603-y
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