Cutaneous head and neck malignancies with perineural spread to contralateral cranial nerves: An argument for extending postoperative radiotherapy volume

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 31, Issue 18, 2013, Pages

  Barnett, Catherine M ^a   Foote, Matthew C ^a,b   Panizza, Benedict ^a,b  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CHEEK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NERVE; CRYOTHERAPY; EYEBROW; FACE INJURY; FEMALE; FORMICATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFRAORBITAL NERVE; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NOSE CARCINOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PERINEURAL INVASION; PHOTON THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SWELLING; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; WIDE EXCISION; CASE REPORT; CRANIAL NERVE TUMOR; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY; SKIN TUMOR;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84882963279     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2012.47.1532     Document Type: Article

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