Radiation Oncology

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How does this strategy change depending on the acuity or chronicity of the symptoms?

When treating sialorrhea in ALS patients, what treatment schedule do you use?

Assouline et al., PMID 24411632 recommend delivering 500cGy x 4 fractions = 2000cGy on days 1, 3, 8, 10. Do you follow this schedule, treat every othe...

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The Laryngoscope, 2016-01

The role of radiation therapy in the management of sialorrhea: A systematic review.

Journal of the neurological sciences, 2011-09-15

Unilateral parotid electron beam radiotherapy as palliative treatment for sialorrhea in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

J. Neurol. Sci., 2008-12-15

Significant clinical improvement in radiation-induced lumbosacral polyradiculopathy by a treatment combining pentoxifylline, tocopherol, and clodronate (Pentoclo).

J Clin Oncol, 2003 Jul 01

Randomized, placebo-controlled trial of combined pentoxifylline and tocopherol for regression of superficial radiation-induced fibrosis.

Int J Radiat Biol, 2018 Apr 27

Montelukast attenuates radioactive I131-induced pulmonary damage on rats.

Aesthet Surg J, 2010 May-Jun

Effects of Singulair (montelukast) treatment for capsular contracture.

Turk Gogus Kalp Damar Cerrahisi Derg, 2018 Sep 16

Protective effect of cysteinyl leukotriene receptor antagonist montelukast in bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis.

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