Twenty-three patients with recurrent or persistent epidermoid carcinoma of the oral cavity, all of whom had failed primary antitumor therapy, were treated with interstitial irradiation and a radiosensitizer. Such primary therapy had included radical surgery, external radiation therapy, or a combinat
Metronidazole and interstitial implantation in the treatment of extensive recurrent head and neck cancers
β Scribed by Leo E. Orr; Ajmel Puthawala; A.M. Nisar Syed; Peter A. Fleming
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 100 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-3016
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