Prognostic Significance of Presentation-to-Diagnosis Interval in Patients with Oropharyngeal Carcinoma

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 45-51

  Ho, Tang ^a   Zahurak, Marianna ^a   Koch, Wayne M ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ONSET AGE; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; OTALGIA; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; TOBACCO;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; TONSILLAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0346374644     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.130.1.45     Document Type: Article

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