Impact of endoscopic screening on early
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Akihito Watanabe; Masao Hosokawa; Masanobu Taniguchi; Hitoshi Tsujie; Shigeyuki
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Background: The aim was to investigate whether periodic pharyngolaryngoscopy screening in high-risk patients with preceding carcinoma of the upper aerodigestive tract can detect early hypopharyngeal cancer and preserve the larynx. ## Methods: The records of 122 patients with hypopharyngeal can