Major surgery in elderly head and neck cancer patients: Immediate and long-term surgical results and complication rates

Surgical Oncology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 249-255

  Zabrodsky, Michal ^a,b   Calabrese, Luca ^a   Tosoni, Antonella ^a   Ansarin, Mohssen ^a   Giugliano, Gioacchino ^a   Bruschini, Roberto ^a   Tradati, Nicoletta ^a   De Paoli, Fiora ^a   Tredici, Paola ^a   Betka, Jan ^b   Chiesa, Fausto ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE TISSUE; CANCER STAGING; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OPERATION DURATION; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 19944413047     PISSN: 09607404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suronc.2004.09.003     Document Type: Article

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