[The dynamics of psychologic distress in patients with maxillofacial and laryngeal malignancies].
The study of psychological dynamics involved in malignancies of the maxillofacial area and larynx included 38 male patients (tumors in maxillofacial area--26; neoplasia of larynx--12). Patients were given different regimens of radiation and radiotherapy; 11 were operated on. Psycho-disorders induced by tumor disease and admission to cancer ward were reported in 35 (92%). With time, such disorders were progressively overshadowed by somato-psychic changes, with asthenic syndrome prevailing, and subsequently psychopath-like features developed. Psycho-organic syndrome was registered in 16 patients as they were approaching terminal stage.
Burnashov
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State Medical Academy, Semipalatinsk.
Musinov
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Vladimirov
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Cherepkova
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005153:Facial Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007573:Jaw Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology; D007822:Laryngeal Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology*