Nasopharyngeal carcinoma in children under 15 years of age: A retrospective review of 65 patients
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Nasopharyngeal carcinoma in children under 15 years of age: a retrospective review of 65 patients.
BACKGROUND Nasopharyngeal carcinoma constitutes comprises up to 5% of primary childhood cancers but literature lacks modern uniformly treated large series. PATIENTS AND METHODS A retrospective review was performed of sixty-five previously untreated patients younger than 16 years of age diagnosed and treated at the Ibn Rochd Centre in Casablanca between 1988 and 1992. Forty-four percent of the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Oncology
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0923-7534
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008325925164