The role of postoperative adjuvant radiation therapy in the treatment of mucosal melanomas of the head and neck region

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 129, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 864-868

  Owens, Jonathan M ^a   Roberts, Dianna B ^b   Myers, Jeffrey N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MOUTH CANCER; NOSE CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TONGUE CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0042591515     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.129.8.864     Document Type: Article

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