Head and Neck Basal Cell Carcinoma Treatment. Summary of the Doctoral Thesis

Abstract

Analysis of available literature, development of research design and coordination in the Ethics Committee of RSU, selection of patient medical documentation, systematisation of medical data with respect to chosen criteria, patient's routine health analysis, research summary, development of practical recommendations, writing of articles and Doctoral thesis. Research amount and structureResearch is written in Latvian. It consists of following parts: introduction, literature review, methods and materials, results, discussion, conclusions and used literature sources. Research consists of 138 pages. There are 39 tables, 13 figures and 5 Appendices. There are 235 headings in the footnotes. METHODS AND MATERIALS Research type, permission of Ethics CommitteeResearch typeretrospective. Research is accepted by Rīga Stradinš University Ethics Committee decision on 23 September 2010. Research structureResearch consists of 2 parts: 1 partefficacy analysis of different head and neck basal cell carcinoma treatment methods, taking into account development of recurrence (observation performed more than 5 years after the treatment) (futher in the text -recurrence analysis‖); 2 partefficacy analysis of head and neck basal cell carcinoma treatment methods, taking into account the cosmetic results (futher in the text -scar analysis‖), if during more than 5 year follow up period there was no recurrence.