Individualized Risk Estimation for Postoperative Complications After Surgery for Oral Cavity Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Postoperative complications after head and neck surgery carry the potential for significant morbidity. Estimating the risk of complications in an individual patient is challenging.

Objective

To develop a statistical tool capable of predicting an individual patient's risk of developing a major complication after surgery for oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma.

Design, setting, and participants

Retrospective case series derived from an institutional clinical oncologic database, augmented by medical record abstraction, at an academic tertiary care cancer center. Participants were 506 previously untreated adult patients with biopsy-proven oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma who underwent surgery between January 1, 2007, and December 31, 2012.

Main outcomes a

SUBMITTER: Awad MI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4976497 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature