Prognostic significance of perioperative blood transfusion in oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma

Head and Neck

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 931-936

  Taniguchi, Yoshitaka ^a   Okura, Masaya ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood transfusion; Head and neck cancer; Oral cavity cancer; Prognosis; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; MITOMYCIN C; PEPLEOMYCIN; PICIBANIL; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CARCINOMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECK DISSECTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0142219849     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.10313     Document Type: Article

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