Secondary intention healing after excision of nonmelanoma skin cancer of the head and neck: Statistical evaluation of prognostic values of wound characteristics and final cosmetic results

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1747-1755

  Van Der Eerden, Paul A ^a,b,c   Lohuis, Peter J F M ^a,b   Hart, A A M ^a,b   Mulder, W C ^a,b   Vuyk, Hade ^a,b  

^a T Lange Land Ziekenhuis   (Netherlands)

^b Departments of Head Neck Oncology and Surgery and Radiotherapy   (Netherlands)

^c Gooi Noord Hospital   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBENT; FUSIDATE SODIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNITULE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CHEEK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTHETICS; EXCISION; FACE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RATING SCALE; SCAR; SECONDARY INTENTION HEALING; SKIN CANCER; SKIN COLOR; SURGICAL WOUND; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; WOUND ASSESSMENT; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NOSE TUMOR; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; SKIN TUMOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CICATRIX; FACE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NOSE NEOPLASMS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROGNOSIS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 58149393741     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31818a9aaa     Document Type: Article

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