Intraoperative saline and gemcitabine irrigation improves tumour control in human squamous cell carcinoma-contaminated surgical wounds

Journal of Otolaryngology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 121-125

  Allegretto, Mike ^a   Seikaly, Hadi ^a   Mackey, John R ^a  

^a Garneau Professional Center   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gemcitabine; Saline; Squamous cell carcinoma; Water; Wound irrigation

Indexed keywords

GEMCITABINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER GROWTH; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE CALCULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL WOUND; WOUND HEALING; WOUND IRRIGATION;

EID: 0035726937     PISSN: 03816605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7070.2001.20822     Document Type: Article

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