Nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Clinical assessment and review of 176 cases

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 205-214

  August, Meredith ^a   Dodson, Thomas B ^a   Nastri, Alf ^b   Chuang, Sung Kiang ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NASOPHARYNX TUMOR; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR RECURRENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0035259458     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/moe.2001.110698     Document Type: Article

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