## Background: Early laryngeal cancer is treated with surgery or radiotherapy. a partial laryngectomy instead of a total laryngectomy can be used for treating patients with radiation failures. ## Methods: Patients were grouped by the two types of partial laryngectomies we performed: group i, endo
Patterns of failure after total laryngectomy for glottic carcinoma
โ Scribed by Robert L. Foote; Steven J. Buskirk; Robert J. Stanley; Patricia M. Grambsch; Kerry D. Olsen; Lawrence W. Desanto; John D. Earle; Louis H. Weiland
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 681 KB
- Volume
- 64
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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