Prognostic factors in the surgical treatment of patients with oral carcinoma

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 79, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 19-22

  Patel, Rajan S ^a,b   Clark, Jonathan R ^a   Dirven, Richard ^a   Wyten, Rebecca ^a   Gao, Kan ^a   O'Brien, Christopher J ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Oral carcinoma; Recurrence; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MOUTH CARCINOMA; NECK DISSECTION; NECK METASTASIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 59149085884     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: 14452197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2008.04791.x     Document Type: Review

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