Neutron therapy, prognostic factors and dedifferentiation of adenoid cystic carcinomas (ACC) of salivary glands

Anticancer Research

Volumn 25, Issue 2 B, 2005, Pages 1321-1326

  Brackrock, Sophie ^a   Krüll, Andreas ^b   Röser, Kerstin ^b   Schwarz, Rudolf ^b   Riethdorf, Lutz ^b   Alberti, Winfried ^b  

^a Friedrich Ebert Krankenhaus   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adenoid cystic carcinoma; Dedifferentiation; Head and neck; Histological subtype; Neutron therapy; Salivary glands

Indexed keywords

ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SALIVARY GLAND; SALIVARY GLAND CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, ADENOID CYSTIC; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FAST NEUTRONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALIVARY GLAND NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 17444432631     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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