Surgical margins and survival after head and neck cancer surgery

BMC Ear, Nose and Throat Disorders

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Haque, Reina ^a   Contreras, Richard ^a   McNicoll, Michael P ^b   Eckberg, Evelyn C ^c   Petitti, Diana B ^a  

^a Kaiser Permanente Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^c Southern California Permanente Medical Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TONGUE CANCER; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 33644865492     PISSN: 14726815     EISSN: 14726815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6815-6-2     Document Type: Article

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