Cut margins and disease control in oral cancers

Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 74-79

  Priya, S R ^a   D'Cruz, A K ^a   Pai, P S ^a  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Frozen section margins; oral cancer; recurrence; resection margin

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FROZEN SECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; ORAL SQUAMOUS CELL CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860486834     PISSN: 09731482     EISSN: 19984138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0973-1482.95178     Document Type: Article

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