Risk factors for distant metastasis in head and neck cancer;Fatores de risco para metástases à distância no câncer de cabeça e pescoço

Revista do Colegio Brasileiro de Cirurgioes

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 478-481

  Dedivitis, Rogério Aparecido ^a   Denardin, Odilon Victor Porto ^b   de Castro, Mário Augusto Ferrari ^c   Pfuetzenreiter Jr , Elio Gilberto ^d  

^a Fundacao Lusiada Faculdade de Ciencias Medicas de Santos   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c HOSPITAL ANA COSTA   (Brazil)

^d HOSPITAL HELIÓPOLIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Head and neck neoplasms; Neoplasm metastasis; Neoplasm staging

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649122686     PISSN: 01006991     EISSN: 18094546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0100-69912009000600003     Document Type: Article

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