A conservation approach to pharyngeal carcinoma with advanced neck disease: Optimizing neck management

Head and Neck

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 217-222

  Allal, Abdelkarim S ^a   Dulguerov, Pavel ^b   Bieri, Sabine ^a   Lehmann, Willy ^b   Kurtz, John M ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Neck dissection; Pharynx cancer; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNX EDEMA; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; PHARYNX CARCINOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNCOPE; TREATMENT INDICATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032915381     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0347(199905)21:3<217::AID-HED6>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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