Mucosal melanoma of the head and neck

American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-48

  Wagner, Marcus ^a   Morris, Christopher G ^a   Werning, John W ^b   Mendenhall, William M ^a  

^a Department of Radiation Oncology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck mucosa; Melanoma; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CAUSE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK MUCOSAL MELANOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MELANOMA; MOUTH CANCER; NOSE CAVITY CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARANASAL SINUS CANCER; ADJUVANT THERAPY; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOSA; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 42449159338     PISSN: 02773732     EISSN: 1537453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/COC.0b013e318134ee88     Document Type: Article

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