Treatment and Prognosis of Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the External Auditory Canal and Middle Ear: A Multi-Institutional Retrospective Review of 87 Patients

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1326-1334

  Ogawa, Kazuhiko ^a   Nakamura, Katsumasa ^c   Hatano, Kazuo ^e   Uno, Takashi ^f   Fuwa, Nobukazu ^g   Itami, Jun ^h   Kojya, Shizuo ^b   Nakashima, Torahiko ^c   Shinhama, Akihiko ^a   Nakagawa, Takashi ^d   Toita, Takafumi ^a   Sakai, Mitsuhiro ^e   Kodaira, Takeshi ^g   Suzuki, Mikio ^a   Ito, Hisao ^f   Murayama, Sadayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b Heart Life Hospital   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e CHIBA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^f CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^h NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; External auditory canal; Middle ear; Radiation therapy; Surgical resection

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMOTHERAPY; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY;

CELL CARCINOMAS; EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; MIDDLE EAR; SURGICAL RESECTION;

CELL CULTURE;

BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; FLUOROPYRIMIDINE; FLUOROURACIL; PEPLEOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EXTERNAL EAR CANAL CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE EAR TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; EAR CANAL; EAR NEOPLASMS; EAR, MIDDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34547450063     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.01.052     Document Type: Article

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