Controversies in the management of retromolar trigone carcinoma

Head and Neck

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 398-405

  Ayad, Tareck ^a   Guertin, Louis ^a   Soulières, Denis ^a   Belair, Manon ^a   Temam, Stéphane ^b   Nguyen Tân, Phuc Felix ^a  

^a NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

Author keywords

Cancer; Oral cavity; Radiotherapy; Retromolar trigone; Surgery

Indexed keywords

PLATINUM DERIVATIVE;

BONE METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ERYTHROPLASIA; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LEUKOPLAKIA; MANDIBLE CANCER; MANDIBLE RESECTION; MOUTH CAVITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NECK DISSECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANORAMIC RADIOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROMOLAR TRIGONE CARCINOMA; REVIEW; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

CARCINOMA; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MANDIBULAR NEOPLASMS; MAXILLARY NEOPLASMS; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 62249087135     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20956     Document Type: Review

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