Case report: Down-staging locally advanced head and neck cancer in an HIV infected patient in a limited resource setting.

Malawi Med J

Oncology unit, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi ; Clinical lecturer College of Medicine Department of Medicine, University of Malawi.

Published: June 2013

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