Surgical margins in head and neck cancer: A contemporary review

Head and Neck

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1362-1370

  Hinni, Michael L ^a   Ferlito, Alfio ^b   Brandwein Gensler, Margaret S ^c   Takes, Robert P ^d   Silver, Carl E ^e   Westra, William H ^f   Seethala, Raja R ^g   Rodrigo, Juan P ^h,i   Corry, June ^j   Bradford, Carol R ^k   Hunt, Jennifer L ^l   Strojan, Primož ^m   Devaney, Kenneth O ⁿ   Gnepp, Douglas R ^o   Hartl, Dana M ^p,q   Kowalski, Luiz P ^r   Rinaldo, Alessandra ^b   Barnes, Leon ^g  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^h HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

ⁱ DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Spain)

^j PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^m INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

ⁿ Allegiance Health ^*  (United States)

^o BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^q Laboratoire de Phonetique et de Phonologie   (France)

^r A C CAMARGO CANCER CENTER   (Brazil)

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Author keywords

frozen section; head neck cancer; molecular factors; pattern of invasion; surgical margins

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FROZEN SECTION; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KERATINIZATION; LARYNGECTOMY; LASER SURGERY; LYMPH VESSEL METASTASIS; MICROSURGERY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; TUMOR INVASION; WEDGE RESECTION;

FROZEN SECTION; HEAD NECK CANCER; MOLECULAR FACTORS; PATTERN OF INVASION; SURGICAL MARGINS;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84883053815     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.23110     Document Type: Review

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