Quality of life correlates after surgery for laryngeal carcinoma

Laryngoscope

Volumn 117, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1770-1776

  Bindewald, Julian ^a   Oeken, Jens ^b   Wollbrueck, Dorit ^a   Wulke, Cornelia ^c   Dietz, Andreas ^a   Herrmann, Esther ^a   Schwarz, Reinhold ^a   Singer, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b Hospital Chemnitz   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disease stage; Laryngectomy; Multivariate analysis; Partial laryngectomy; Postoperative radiotherapy; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMELLING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 34848924020     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e3180caa18c     Document Type: Article

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