Head and neck cancer screening in patients eligible for liver transplantation.
CONCLUSIONS: In patients who are candidates for a liver transplant who have a history of smoking and / or high alcohol intake, a pretransplant head and neck study including pharyngo-laryngeal fibroscopy is indicated.
PMID: 32434677 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Acta Otorrinolaringologica Espanola - Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Castillo-Ledesma N, Corriols-Noval P, López-Simón E, Viana-Cora A, Casafont-Morencos F, Ezcurra-Acedo I, Morales-Angulo C Tags: Acta Otorrinolaringol Esp Source Type: research
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