T4b oral cavity cancer below the mandibular notch is resectable with a favorable outcome

Oral Oncology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 570-579

  Liao, Chun Ta ^a,c   Ng, Shu Hang ^a,c   Chang, Joseph Tung Chieh ^a,c   Wang, Hung Ming ^b,c   Hsueh, Chuen ^a,c   Lee, Li Yu ^a,c   Tsao, Chung Kan ^a,c   Chen, Wen Ho ^a,c   Chen, I How ^a,c   Kang, Chung Jan ^a,c   Huang, Shiang Fu ^a,c   Yen, Tzu Chen ^a,c  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c Chang Gung Children's Medical Center   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Oral cavity cancer; Squamous cell carcinoma; Survival; T4b; Unresectable

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FOLINIC ACID; TEGAFUR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MANDIBLE; MANDIBLE RESECTION; MAXILLA RESECTION; MOUTH CANCER; NECK DISSECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MANDIBLE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; ORAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34249812928     PISSN: 13688375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2006.06.008     Document Type: Article

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