Immediate Impact of Primary Surgery on Health-Related Quality of Life of Hospitalized Patients With Oral and Oropharyngeal Cancer

Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1343-1350

  Biazevic, Maria G H ^a   Antunes, José Leopoldo Ferreira ^a   Togni, Janina ^a   de Andrade, Fabiana P ^a   de Carvalho, Marcos B ^b   Wünsch Filho, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL HELIÓPOLIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; OROPHARYNX CANCER; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGIONAL METASTASIS; STUDENT T TEST; TUMOR VOLUME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

BRAZIL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; ORAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 44949142142     PISSN: 02782391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joms.2007.07.006     Document Type: Article

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