Quality of life following resection, free flap reconstruction and postoperative external beam radiotherapy for squamous cell carcinoma of the base of tongue

Clinical Otolaryngology and Allied Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 274-278

  Winter, S C A ^a   Cassell, O ^a   Corbridge, R J ^a   Goodacre, T ^a   Cox, G J ^a  

^a RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Quality of life; Questionnaire; Reconstruction; Surgery; Tongue base; Tumour; University of washington

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FREE SKIN GRAFT; HUMAN; MALE; MASTICATION; MORBIDITY; PAIN; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SALIVATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SWALLOWING; TASTE; TONGUE CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TONGUE; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 2542446408     PISSN: 03077772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2273.2004.00812.x     Document Type: Article

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