Plasma homocysteine, folate, and vitamin B12 levels in patients with laryngeal cancer

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1328-1333

  Nacci, Andrea ^a   Dallan, Iacopo ^b   Bruschini, Luca ^b   Traino, Antonio Claudio ^b   Panicucci, Erica ^a   Bruschini, Paolo ^b   Mancini, Valentina ^a   Rognini, Ferdinando ^b   Fattori, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOCOBALAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LARYNX CANCER; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MALE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VITAMIN B 12;

EID: 58149265144     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 08864470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.134.12.1328     Document Type: Article

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