Clinical and pathological determinants in tonsillar cancer

Head and Neck

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1703-1707

  Chuang, Hui Ching ^a   Fang, Fu Min ^a   Huang, Chao Cheng ^a   Huang, Hsuan Ying ^a   Chen, Han Ku ^a   Chen, Chang Han ^a,b   Chien, Chih Yen ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

distant metastasis; human papillomavirus; lymph node metastasis; prognosis; tonsillar cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TONSIL CANCER; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAPILLOMAVIRIDAE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SURVIVAL RATE; TONSILLAR NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81255149471     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.21662     Document Type: Article

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