Background. The improvement in locoregional control of head and neck carcinomas over the last decades does not appear to modify the final survival of these patients, mainly due to the appearance of distant metastases and second neoplasms. We ran a study to evaluate the incidence of second neoplasms
Intravenous hyperalimentation in patients with head and neck cancer
β Scribed by Dr. Edward M. Copeland; Bruce V. MacFadyen Jr; William S. MacComb; Oscar Guillamondegui; Richard H. Jesse; Stanley J. Dudrick
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1975
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 499 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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