Preoperative radiotherapy for adult head and neck soft tissue sarcoma: Assessment of wound complication rates and cancer outcome in a prospective series

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 875-883

  O'Sullivan, Brian ^a   Gullane, Patrick ^b   Irish, Jonathan ^b   Neligan, Peter ^b   Gentili, Fred ^b   Mahoney, James ^c   Sellmann, Susanna ^a   Catton, Charles ^a   Waldron, John ^a   Brown, Dale ^b   Witterick, Ian ^b   Freeman, Jeremy ^b   Bell, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RELAPSE; SEROMA; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; WOUND CARE; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND DRESSING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SARCOMA; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0041929526     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-003-7115-4     Document Type: Article

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