Quality of life after parotid and temporal bone surgery for cancer

Laryngoscope

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 820-833

  Kwok, Henry C K ^a   Morton, Randall P ^a   Chaplin, John M ^a   McIvor, Nicholas P ^a   Sillars, Hamish A ^a  

^a GREEN LANE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Parotid cancer; Quality of life; Temporal bone resection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE RESECTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; FITNESS; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MALE; PAROTID GLAND CANCER; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; TEMPORAL BONE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MALE; PAROTID NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SKULL NEOPLASMS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; TEMPORAL BONE;

EID: 0036244530     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200205000-00010     Document Type: Article

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