Durable response to chemotherapy for recurrent squamous cell carcinoma of the cheek with perineural spread

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 127, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1074-1075

  Phan, Robert ^b   Phan, Laura ^b   Ginsberg, Lawrence E ^b   Blumenschein, George ^b   Williams, Michelle D ^b   Esmaeli, Bita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; PACLITAXEL;

AGED; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; CHEEK; ECTROPION; EXCISION; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARBOPLATIN; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEEK; CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS; FACIAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PACLITAXEL; TRIGEMINAL NERVE DISEASES;

EID: 68549110564     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2009.170     Document Type: Letter

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