CLINICAL INVESTIGATION Head and Neck PATTERNS OF FAILURE AFTER COMBINED-MODALITYAPPROACHES INCORPORATING RADIOTHERAPY FOR SINONASAL UNDIFFERENTIATED CARCINOMA OF THE HEAD AND NECK
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Departments of *Radiation Oncology, yOtolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, and zPathology, University of California, San Francisco Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA; xDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; kDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; and {Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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