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Do palliative embolization in unresectable, unsalvageable recurrent and metastatic head and neck cancer patients help?

Nitin ShettyNandini MenonShivakumar ThiagarajanShikar SawhneySuyash KulkarniDevendra Chaukar
Published in: European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (2021)
Selective embolization is an option to be considered in certain patients with unresectable, unsalvageable recurrent and/or metastatic head and neck cancer, when they present with sudden and massive bleeding to the emergency department, at centres where the facility and expertise for this procedure might be available.
Keyphrases
  • emergency department
  • squamous cell carcinoma
  • locally advanced
  • small cell lung cancer
  • liver metastases
  • palliative care
  • minimally invasive
  • radiation therapy