Quantification of tongue mobility impairment using optical tracking in patients after receiving primary surgery or chemoradiation.
Kilian D R KappertM J A van AlphenL E SmeeleA J M BalmF van der HeijdenPublished in: PloS one (2019)
We introduced a reliable and reproducible method for measuring the ROM and to quantify for motion impairments, that was able to show differences in tongue ROM between healthy subjects and patients after chemoradiation or surgery. Future research should focus on measuring patients with oral cancer pre- and post-treatment in combination with the collection of detailed information about the individual tongue anatomy, so that the full ROM trajectory can be used to identify changes over time and to quantify functional impairment.
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