The clinical significance of the positive surgical margin in oral cancer

Oral Oncology

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 780-784

  Binahmed, Abdulaziz ^a   Nason, Richard W ^b   Abdoh, Ahmed A ^c  

^a Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery ^*  (Canada)

^b CANCERCARE MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Oral cancer; Surgical margins; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MANDIBLE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34547860042     PISSN: 13688375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2006.10.001     Document Type: Article

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