Controversies in the management of tongue base cancer

Irish Journal of Medical Science

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-5

  O'Neill, J P ^a   Hughes, J P ^a   Manning, K P ^a   Fenton, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Radiotherapy; Surgery; Tongue base cancer

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

AGING; ALCOHOLISM; BETEL NUT; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCHRANE LIBRARY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FAMILY HISTORY; GLOSSECTOMY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; MEDLINE; NECK PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAPILLOMA VIRUS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; TONGUE CARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; CONFLICT; FEMALE; IRELAND; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRELAND; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 61849094638     PISSN: 00211265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11845-008-0214-3     Document Type: Review

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