PMO-072 A 1 year two phase prospective project looking at nutritional risk in reactive vs elective nasogastric enteral feeding in head and neck cancer patients undergoing radical (chemo)radiotherapy: Abstract PMO-072 Table 1
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Gastrostomy vs nasogastric tube feeding in patients with head and neck cancer during radiotherapy alone or combined chemoradiotherapy
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عنوان ژورنال: Gut
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0017-5749,1468-3288
DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2012-302514b.72