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The association between oral candidiasis and severity of chemoradiotherapy-induced dysphagia in head and neck cancer patients: A retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) for head and neck cancer (HNC) is a risk factor for oral candidiasis (OC). As Candida spp. are highly virulent, we conducted a retrospective study to determine whether OC increases the severity of dysphagia related to mucositis in HNC patie...

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Autores principales: Saito, Hirotake, Shodo, Ryusuke, Yamazaki, Keisuke, Katsura, Kouji, Ueki, Yushi, Nakano, Toshimichi, Oshikane, Tomoya, Yamana, Nobuko, Tanabe, Satoshi, Utsunomiya, Satoru, Ohta, Atsushi, Abe, Eisuke, Kaidu, Motoki, Sasamoto, Ryuta, Aoyama, Hidefumi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6849117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31737796
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ctro.2019.10.006