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Tumor Deposits in Head and Neck Tumors

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The most frequent type of head and neck tumors is squamous cell carcinomas (SCC), and the variants of SCC are not frequent. The prognosis of carcinomas with similar histology at different sites of the head and neck is different.

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Sarioglu, S. (2018). Tumor Deposits in Head and Neck Tumors. In: Tumor Deposits. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68582-3_8

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