Chronic alcohol consumption-The key risk factor for pharyngeal cancer

Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 168-173

  Maier, Heinz ^a   Weidauer, H ^a   Sennewald, Elke ^b   Heller, Gerhard Fischer Wolf Dieter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PHARYNX CARCINOMA; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0028350326     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/019459989411000205     Document Type: Article

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