CT-measured skeletal muscle mass used to assess frailty in patients with head and neck cancer.
Aniek T ZwartAnouk van der HoornPeter M A van OoijenRoel J H M SteenbakkersGeertruida H de BockGyorgy B HalmosPublished in: Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle (2019)
This is the first study that demonstrates that sarcopenia is independently associated with frailty based on the G8 questionnaire in HNC patients. These results suggest that in the future, screening for sarcopenia on routinely obtained neck computed tomography scans may replace time consuming frailty questionnaires and help to select the (un)suitable patients for therapy, which is highly clinically relevant.
Keyphrases
- computed tomography
- skeletal muscle
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- newly diagnosed
- magnetic resonance imaging
- prognostic factors
- community dwelling
- contrast enhanced
- insulin resistance
- stem cells
- adipose tissue
- cross sectional
- patient reported outcomes
- dual energy
- metabolic syndrome
- cell therapy