Electrochemotherapy in non-melanoma head and neck cancers: A retrospective analysis of the treated cases

British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 957-964

  Campana, Luca Giovanni ^a   Mali, Barbara ^b   Sersa, Gregor ^c   Valpione, Sara ^a   Giorgi, Carlo A ^a   Strojan, Primoz ^c   Miklavcic, Damijan ^b   Rossi, Carlo R ^a  

^a VENETO INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY IOV IRCCS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC ANTIBIOTIC;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BLEEDING; CANCER CONTROL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFUSION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; ELECTRODE; FACE EDEMA; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE ULCER; MALE; MOUTH CARCINOMA; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEEDLE ELECTRODE; NON MELANOMA SKIN CANCER; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICES; FACIAL NEOPLASMS; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; INTRALESIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BLEOMYCIN; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CISPLATIN; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; FACIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; REMISSION INDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAFETY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84946906516     PISSN: 02664356     EISSN: 15321940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjoms.2014.08.004     Document Type: Article

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