Surgical resection for clinical perineural invasion from cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck

Head and Neck

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1622-1627

  Panizza, Benedict ^a,b   Solares, C Arturo ^c   Redmond, Michael ^a   Parmar, Priya ^d   O'Rourke, Peter ^d  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

basal cell carcinoma; cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma; neurotropism; perineural invasion; radiation therapy; skull base surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISEASE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERINEURIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; SKIN CARCINOMA; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CRANIAL NERVES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84867885843     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.21986     Document Type: Article

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