Palliative Head and Neck Cancer Treatment for Asymptomatic Disease.

Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg

3 Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Michigan Health Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Published: July 2018

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