Life with a stoma-coping with daily life: Experiences from focus group interviews.

Aims And Objectives: To describe patients' experiences of coping with daily life practically and emotionally during the first years after stoma surgery.

Background: For people with a stoma, a new life awaits with altered bowel function and body image. This means a profound change in a person's life.

Quality of care in dysphagia patients: adaptation and validation of the Swedish SWAL-CARE questionnaire.

Background: The aim of this study was to adapt the instrument and evaluate the psychometric properties of the Swedish version of the Swallowing Quality of Care questionnaire (S-SWAL-CARE) in patients with oropharyngeal dysphagia.

Methods: Translation and adaptation of the original SWAL-CARE into Swedish was performed according to established international guidelines. Field testing was performed using 100 patients with oropharyngeal dysphagia due to multiple reasons such as head and neck cancer and neurologic/neuromuscular disease, who had undergone swallowing evaluation within 6 months prior to the study.

Identifying organs at risk for radiation-induced late dysphagia in head and neck cancer patients.

Background And Purpose: Dysphagia is a common, severe and dose-limiting toxicity after oncological treatment of head and neck cancer (HNC). This study aims to investigate relationships between radiation doses to structures involved in normal swallowing and patient-reported as well as clinically measured swallowing function in HNC patients after curative (chemo-) radiation therapy (RT) with focus on late effects.

Materials And Methods: Patients (n = 90) with HNC curatively treated with RT ± chemotherapy in 2007-2015 were assessed for dysphagia post-treatment by telephone interview and videofluoroscopy (VFS).

Clinical and Histological changes after ridge preservation with two xenografts: preliminary results from a multicentre randomized controlled clinical trial.

Objectives: To evaluate and compare clinical and histological changes after ridge preservation procedures with those of spontaneous healing.

Materials And Methods: Ninety patients were enrolled in the present randomized controlled clinical trial and underwent single-tooth extraction in the premolar/molar areas. Thirty sites were grafted with collagenated cortico-cancellous (coll), 30 sites with cortical (cort) porcine bone and 30 sites underwent natural healing.