Salvage surgery after radical accelerated radiotherapy with concomitant boost technique for head and neck carcinomas

Head and Neck

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 182-186

  Taussky, Daniel ^a,b   Dulguerov, Pavel ^a   Allal, Abdelkarim S ^a,b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Recurrence; Salvage surgery

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FISTULA; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METASTASIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POOR GENERAL CONDITION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SALVAGE THERAPY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 14644392881     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20139     Document Type: Article

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