Safe, successful swallowing depends on complex events affected by head and neck cancers
and their treatment. This article reviews the swallowing process, how it is affected by …

Four main modalities are utilized clinically: plain film radiography, CT scan, nuclear imaging
and magnetic resonance imaging. In this discussion, we will review literature on the …

Background. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a symptom inventory for patients
with head and neck cancer and to assess the occurrence and severity of symptoms, the …

Background Oropharyngeal squamous-cell carcinomas caused by human papillomavirus (HPV)
are associated with favorable survival, but the independent prognostic significance of …

… Rosenthal … Rosenthal, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA. … of
the dahllite formed in this process under physiological conditions were determined by di- …

Acquired hypogonadism is being increasingly recognized in adult men. However, the effects
of long term testosterone replacement on bone density and body composition are largely …

PURPOSE: Many patients receiving fractionated radiotherapy (RT) for head-and-neck cancer
have marked anatomic changes during their course of treatment, including shrinking of the …

Purpose Combining cisplatin or cetuximab with radiation improves overall survival (OS) of
patients with stage III or IV head and neck carcinoma (HNC). Cetuximab plus platinum …

Osteoid osteoma, a benign bone tumor, has traditionally been treated with operative excision.
A recently developed method for percutaneous ablation of the tumor has been proposed …

PURPOSE: To report our experience with technical success, complications, and long-term
clinical success of radiofrequency (RF) ablation of osteoid osteoma. MATERIALS AND …