Association of Head and Neck Cancers in Chronic Osteomyelitis: A National Retrospective Cohort Study

Chia-Ta Tsai1, Mao-Wang Ho, Dana Lin

  • 1From the Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, China Medical University Hospital (C-TT, M-WH); Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science and School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University (C-TT, W-CS, C-HK); Management Office for Health Data, China Medical University Hospital (DL, H-JC, C-HM); School of Medicine, China Medical University (H-JC, C-HM); Department of Neurology, China Medical University Hospital (C-HT); School of Medicine, China Medical University College of Medicine, Taichung (C-HT); Department of Nuclear Medicine, E-Da Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung (M-CL); and Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan (C-HK).

Medicine
|January 29, 2016
PubMed

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