Prognostic value of paranasopharyngeal extension of nasopharyngeal carcinoma: A significant factor in local control and distant metastasis

Cancer

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 202-210

  Chua, Daniel T T ^a   Sham, Jonathan S T ^a   Kwong, Dora L W ^a   Choy, Damon T K ^b   Au, Gordon K H ^b   Wu, P M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

distant metastasis; local control; nasopharyngeal carcinoma; paranasopharyngeal extension; prognostic factor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER GRADING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RELAPSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CARCINOMA; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORECASTING; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NASOPHARYNX; NECK; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029681549     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19960715)78:2<202::AID-CNCR3>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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