The observation of the clinical effect after Acupoint catgut embedding treatment treating swallowing dysfunction after radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma
- Conditions
- nasopharyngeal carcinoma
- Registration Number
- ITMCTR2000004128
- Lead Sponsor
- Hanzhong Central Hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
1. Malignant neoplasms at the top and lateral walls of the nasopharyngeal cavity were confirmed;
2. Regular hospitalization and complaints of dysphagia;
3. Head and neck surgery experts determined that there was a swallowing disorder;
4. Aged 30 to 80 years;
5. It can complete the filling of Anderson rating scale independently or with the help of researchers, and can cooperate with the drinking water test in low-lying fields;
6. Expected lifetime & GT 6 months;
7. Informed and agreed, voluntary acceptance, good compliance of patients.
1. Pregnancy or lactation;
2. Patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, endocrine system, hematopoietic system, digestive system, serious primary diseases and mental diseases;
3. Patients with mental and perceptual impairments;
4. Patients with clotting disease, thrombocytopenia or other hemorrhagic diseases;
5. Sepsis or bacteremia patients;
6. There were lymphedema patients in acupoint embedding area;
7. Patients who are afraid of acupoint embedding or;
8. If the therapy has been treated surgically, the swallowing function will be irreversible, which will cause disturbance to the results of this study.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional study
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Standardized Swallowing Assessment, SSA;Water Swallow Test, WST;Functional Oral Intake Scale, FOIS;M.D. Anderson Dysphagia Inventory, MDADI;
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Digital imaging assessment;