Review of transoral laser microsurgery for cancer of the upper aerodigestive tract

Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 113-121

  Rigby, Matthew H ^a   Taylor, S Mark ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; HUMAN; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LASER SURGERY; OROPHARYNX CANCER; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE EDEMA; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TRAINING; TRANSORAL LASER MICROSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

GLOTTIS; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LASER THERAPY; MICROSURGERY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79953681899     PISSN: 19160216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7070.2011.100106     Document Type: Review

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