Do positive resection margins after ablative surgery for head and neck cancer adversely affect prognosis? A study of 352 patients with recurrent carcinoma following radiotherapy treated by salvage surgery

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 128-132

  Jones, A S ^a   Bin Hanafi, Z ^a   Nadapalan, V ^a   Roland, N J ^a   Kinsella, A ^a   Helliwell, T R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Head and neck squamous carcinoma; Incomplete excision; Positive resection margin; Recurrence; Residual tumour

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEAD CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CARCINOMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECK CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

EID: 0030037843     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1996.327     Document Type: Article

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