Pathology reporting in head and neck cancer-snapshot of current status

Head and Neck

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 227-231

  King, Bronwyn ^a   Franzcr, June Corry ^a,b  

^a PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Pathology reporting; Postoperative radiotherapy; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH STATUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH VESSEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 59449106844     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20957     Document Type: Article

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