Experience of long-term management for osteoradionecrosis of the maxilla after carbon ion radiotherapy | Zendy

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Experience of long-term management for osteoradionecrosis of the maxilla after carbon ion radiotherapy

Author(s) -

Hiroaki Ikawa,

Go Sasahara,

Ryo Takagi,

Masashi Koto,

A. Hasegawa,

Hiroshi Tsuji,

Tadashi Kamada

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

journal of radiation research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.643

H-Index - 60

eISSN - 1349-9157

pISSN - 0449-3060

DOI - 10.1093/jrr/rrt208

Subject(s) - medicine , osteoradionecrosis , common terminology criteria for adverse events , sequestrum , radiation therapy , maxilla , adverse effect , surgery , dentistry , osteomyelitis

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the incident of maxillary osteoradionecrosis (ORN) in patients who underwent carbon ion radiotherapy (CIRT) for head and neck cancer. We report the experience of long-term management for ORN especially required surgical intervention for grade 3 morbidity.Materials and methods: From April 1997 to April 2006, 239 patients with the head and neck cancers ...

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