Masticatory muscle index for indicating skeletal muscle mass in patients with head and neck cancer

BACKGROUND: A typical assessment for sarcopenia involves the use of abdominal computed tomography (CT) for calculating the skeletal muscle index (SMI) at the level of the third lumbar vertebra (L3). However, abdominal CT is not regularly performed on patients with head and neck cancer (HNC). We inve...

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Autores principales: Chang, Sheng-Wei, Tsai, Yuan-Hsiung, Hsu, Cheng-Ming, Huang, Ethan I., Chang, Geng-He, Tsai, Ming-Shao, Tsai, Yao-Te
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8109770/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33970954
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251455

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8109770/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33970954
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251455

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