Forty-one patients with Stage 111 and IV squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) of the head and neck were treated preoperatively with mitomycin C and 5-fluorouracil and concomitant radiotherapy. Operation specimen were examined histologically, the percentage of vital tumor cells and devitalized tumor cells
Outcome and Histopathologic Regression in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma after Preoperative Radiochemotherapy
✍ Scribed by Oliver Driemel; Tobias Ettl; Oliver Kölbl; Torsten E. Reichert; Bernd V. Dresp; Jürgen Reuther; Hans Pistner
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- German
- Weight
- 253 KB
- Volume
- 185
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0179-7158
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