Rahul Alapati, Antonio Bon Nieves, Sarah Wagoner, Amelia Lawrence, Jill Jones, Andrés M Bur
OBJECTIVES: To provide a comprehensive summary of the different modalities available to measure soft tissue fibrosis after radiotherapy in head and neck cancer patients. DATA SOURCES: PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Sciences. REVIEW METHODS: A search was conducted using a list of medical subject headings and terms related to head and neck oncology, radiation fibrosis, and quantitative measurements, including bioimpedance, MRI, and ultrasound. Original research related to quantitative measurement of neck fibrosis post-radiotherapy was included without time constraints, while reviews, case reports, non-English texts, and inaccessible studies were excluded...
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