Prognostic significance of invasion depth in oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma

ORL

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 264-270

  Tan, Winson Jianhong ^a,b   Chia, Claramae Shulyn ^a,b   Tan, Hiang Khoon ^a   Soo, Khee Chee ^a   Iyer, N Gopalakrishna ^a  

^a DIVISION OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Depth of invasion; Oral cancers; Tongue cancer; Tumor thickness

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOCAL RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TONGUE CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; GLOSSECTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868230846     PISSN: 03011569     EISSN: 14230275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000343796     Document Type: Article

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