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Acute and late dysphagia according to baseline dysfunction.
| Baseline dysphagia* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 0–2 | Grade 3 | Grade 4 | ||
| Acute dysphagia (n=52) (n, %) | Total | |||
| Grade 0-2 | 8 | – | – | 8 |
| Grade 3 | 19 | 8 | – | 27 |
| Grade 4 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 15 |
| Unknown | – | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Total | 35 | 15 | 2 | 52 |
| Late dysphagia (n=41) (n, %)† | ||||
| Grade 0-2 | 22 | 3 | – | 25 |
| Grade 3 | 1 | 1 | – | 2 |
| Grade 4 | 1 | 4 | – | 5 |
| Unknown | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| Total | 28 | 11 | 1 | 41 |
*Excluded patients who terminated prematurely re-RT. †For nine of 41 evaluable patients data were unknown.
