The corona pandemic (COVID-19) as a prognostic factor - Is there COVID upstaging in patients with head and neck tumors?
- Conditions
- Head and Neck Cancer
- Registration Number
- DRKS00024176
- Lead Sponsor
- niversitätsklinikum Leipzig
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 100
The study population includes all adult patients who presented to the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Leipzig in 2019-2020, including the second pandemic wave (early 2021), due to a new tumor disease or a tumor recurrence. The inclusion criterion is presentation to the head and neck tumor board, the skull base board, or the skin tumor board of Leipzig University Hospital. Thus, patients with malignancies of the oral cavity and pharynx, but also patients with malignancies of the skin were systematically included.
Age less than 18 years, Benign tumors, Basal cell carcinomas, Malignant melanomas, Metastases to head and neck of other tumors, CUP, Isolated lymph node metastases of known tumors.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method