Treatment of base of tongue cancer, stage III and stage IV with primary surgery: survival and functional outcomes

European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Volumn 272, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2027-2033

  Al Qahtani, Khaled ^a,b,c,d   Rieger, Jen ^a,b   Harris, Jeffery R ^a,b   Mlynarek, Alex ^b   Williams, David ^b   Islam, Tahera ^c   Seikaly, Hadi ^a,b  

^a Misericordia Community Hospital   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d KING ABDUL AZIZ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Base of tongue; Head and neck cancer; Local control and disease specific survival; Micro vascular reconstruction; Oropharynx; Speech; Swallowing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASE OF TONGUE CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; DISEASE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND CANCER; SPEECH; SWALLOWING; TONGUE CANCER; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CANADA; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CONVALESCENCE; EAR NOSE THROAT SURGERY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROCEDURES; REHABILITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; TONGUE; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CANADA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEGLUTITION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPEECH; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TONGUE; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84931572296     PISSN: 09374477     EISSN: 14344726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00405-014-3140-1     Document Type: Article

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