Prognostic importance of "clear versus revised margins" in oral and pharyngeal cancer

Head and Neck

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1479-1484

  Kwok, Pingling ^a   Gleich, Otto ^a   Hübner, Gerhard ^a   Strutz, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

frozen sections; margins; oral cancer; pharyngeal cancer; prognosis

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; MOUTH CAVITY; ORAL SURGERY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHARYNX; PHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTIONS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 78649487044     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.21349     Document Type: Article

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