title: [Nutritional problems in the surgical patients with head and neck tumours. Literature review and personal experience].
abstract: During the last years the importance of the correct nutritional assessment as a part of the therapeutic process of the human pathologies has a greatly increased relevance. Still more in oncology, such relationship among nutritional assessment and good result of the therapeutic treatment have a fundamental importance. Among the neoplastic diseases those of the head and the neck result to be particularly aggressive, both for their nature and for the particular anatomical organization of such body areas, and the affected patients also need a precise evaluation of the nutritional assessment to obtain an optimal therapeutic result. On the basis of such premises and to their own clinical experience, the authors describe the main nutritional problems of the patients with tumours of the head and the neck and the possible therapeutic solutions.
authors.affiliation: Cattedra di Fisiologia della Nutrizione, Università degli Studi di Foggia, Italia.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Santacroce
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Leone
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Valenzano
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Luperto
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bottalico
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Losacco
mesh_terms: D004750:Enteral Nutrition; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D009751:Nutritional Requirements; D009752:Nutritional Status; D018529:Nutritional Support; D010288:Parenteral Nutrition; D012307:Risk Factors