What is the adequate margin of surgical resection in oral cancer?

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology and Endodontology

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 625-629

  Nason, Richard W ^a   Binahmed, Abdulaziz ^b   Pathak, Kumar A ^c   Abdoh, Ahmed A ^c   Sándor, George K B ^b  

^a CANCERCARE MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; MOUTH TUMOR; ORAL SURGERY; PATHOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; ORAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 65149087789     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tripleo.2008.11.013     Document Type: Article

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