Outcomes of radiotherapy in advanced external auditory canal cancer
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Cancer of the external auditory canal.
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the outcome of surgery for cancer of the external auditory canal and relate this to the Pittsburgh staging system used both on squamous cell carcinoma and non-squamous cell carcinoma. DESIGN Retrospective case series of all patients who had surgery between 1979 and 2000. Median follow-up was 47 months (range, 2-148 months). Data on age, sex, symptoms, TNM status, histopa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Radiation Research
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0449-3060,1349-9157
DOI: 10.1093/jrr/rrz010