Tongue cancer treated with brachytherapy: Is thickness of tongue cancer a prognostic factor for regional control?

Anticancer Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2 B, 1998, Pages 1261-1265

  Yamazaki, Hideya ^a   Inoue, Takehiro ^a   Teshima, Teruki ^a   Tanaka, Eiichi ^a   Koizumi, Masahiko ^a   Kagawa, Kazufumi ^a   Imai, Atsushi ^a   Yoshida, Ken ^a   Shiomi, Hiroya ^a   Shimizutani, Kimishige ^a   Furukawa, Souhei ^b   Fuchihata, Hajime ^b   Nakamura, Hironobu ^a   Inoue, Toshihiko ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Lymph node; Oral tongue cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; THICKNESS; TONGUE CANCER; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 15444353506     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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