Gender specific quality of life in patients with oral squamous cell carcinomas

Head and Face Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Maciejewski, Oliver ^a   Smeets, Ralf ^a,b   Gerhards, Frank ^a   Kolk, Andreas ^c   Kloss, Frank ^d   Stein, Jamal M ^b   Kasaj, Adrian ^b   Koch, Felix ^e   Grosjean, Maurice ^b   Riediger, Dieter ^a   Yekta, Sareh S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^e JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 77955692270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1746160X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-160X-6-21     Document Type: Article

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