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Feasibility of using head and neck CT imaging to assess skeletal muscle mass in head and neck cancer patients
Justin E. Swartz ,
Ajit J. Pothen ,
Inge Wegner ,
Ernst J. Smid ,
Karin M.A. Swart ,
Remco de Bree ,
Loek P.H. Leenen ,
Wilko Grolman
November 2016
November 2016
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Abstract
<p class="first" id="d3325860e164">Patients with head and neck cancer (HNC) have a
higher risk of malnutrition and sarcopenia,
which is associated with adverse clinical outcome. As abdominal CT-imaging is often
used to detect sarcopenia, such scans are rarely available in HNC patients, possibly
explaining why no studies investigate the effect of sarcopenia in this population.
We correlated skeletal muscle mass assessed on head and neck CT-scans with abdominal
CT-imaging.
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