Swallowing: A delayed milestone post-surgery in tongue cancers.
NG tube
PEG tube
Quality of life
Rehabilitation
Swallowing
Journal
Oral oncology
ISSN: 1879-0593
Titre abrégé: Oral Oncol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9709118
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
12 2022
12 2022
Historique:
received:
23
10
2022
accepted:
28
10
2022
pubmed:
11
11
2022
medline:
29
11
2022
entrez:
10
11
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Functional rehabilitation remains an important factor in the post-operative period following tongue cancer surgeries. Patients undergoing surgery for tongue cancers require intense rehabilitation in order to restore their swallowing function, and improve their nutritional status and quality of life. Various swallowing scales like the Functional Oral Intake Scale (FOIS), Performance status scale in head and neck cancer (PSSHNC) and 100 ml water swallow test are used to assess functionality in these patients. These aid in timely assessment and early intervention for better rehabilitation, in turn improving quality of life. Nasogastric tube (NG) or percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) aids in providing adequate nutrition in the immediate post-operative period and during adjuvant therapy to overcome radiation-induced dysphagia.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36356388
pii: S1368-8375(22)00528-0
doi: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2022.106238
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Letter
Comment
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
106238Commentaires et corrections
Type : CommentOn
Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.