Combined-modality treatment improved outcome in sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma: Single-institutional experience of 21 patients and review of the literature

European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Volumn 270, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 293-299

  Al Mamgani, Abrahim ^a   Van Rooij, Peter ^a   Mehilal, Robert ^a   Tans, Lisa ^a   Levendag, Peter C ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Head and neck cancer; IMRT; SNUC; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE;

ADULT; AGED; BONE NECROSIS; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DYSPHAGIA; ECTROPION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LACRIMAL DUCT OCCLUSION; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PARANASAL SINUS CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINONASAL UNDIFFERENTIATED CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MAXILLARY SINUS NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NETHERLANDS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84872342007     PISSN: 09374477     EISSN: 14344726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00405-012-2008-5     Document Type: Review

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