Involved surgical margins in oral and oropharyngeal carcinoma - An anatomical problem?

British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 172-175

  McMahon, Jeremy D ^a   Devine, John C ^a   Hetherington, Jonathan ^b   Bryson, Gareth ^a   McLellan, Douglas ^a   MacIver, Colin ^c   Teasdale, Evelyn ^a   Jampana, Ravi ^a  

^a SOUTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c Southern General Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CT imaging; Head and neck; Oral cancer; Oropharynx; Squamous cell carcinoma; Surgical margins

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENERAL HOSPITAL; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOUTH CARCINOMA; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TUMOR VOLUME; UNITED KINGDOM;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL AUDIT; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; RISK; ROC CURVE; SCOTLAND; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79953661262     PISSN: 02664356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjoms.2010.02.014     Document Type: Article

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