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Luiz Paulo Kowalski

Luiz Paulo Kowalski

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Medicine

D-Index
98
Citations
32168
World Ranking
8978
National Ranking
23

Overview

Luiz Paulo Kowalski is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil and has a substantial body of work primarily in the field of Medicine. Their research spans several specialized subfields including Surgery, Otorhinolaryngology, Oncology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Molecular Biology.

Their main research topics cover a range of clinical and oncological studies, with a focus on head and neck cancers. These topics include:

  • Head and Neck Cancer Studies
  • Salivary Gland Tumors Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery
  • Head and Neck Surgical Oncology
  • Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
  • Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

Kowalski has published extensively in a variety of scientific journals. The most frequent venues for their publications are:

  • Oral Surgery Oral Medicine Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology
  • Head & Neck
  • Cancers
  • Oral Oncology
  • Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology

Among their recent papers are:

  • COVID-19 pandemic: Effects and evidence-based recommendations for otolaryngology and head and neck surgery practice (2020) in Head & Neck
  • Staging and grading of oral squamous cell carcinoma: An update (2020) in Oral Oncology
  • Papillary Thyroid Cancer-Aggressive Variants and Impact on Management: A Narrative Review (2020) in Advances in Therapy
  • IARC Perspective on Oral Cancer Prevention (2022) in New England Journal of Medicine
  • Recommendations for head and neck surgical oncology practice in a setting of acute severe resource constraint during the COVID-19 pandemic: an international consensus (2020) in The Lancet Oncology

Their collaborative efforts include frequent work with several co-authors, notably:

  • Alan Roger Santos-Silva
  • Alfio Ferlito
  • Antti Mäkitie
  • Leandro Luongo Matos
  • Márcio Ajudarte Lopes

In addition to journal articles, Luiz Paulo Kowalski has contributed to book publications, including:

  • Tratado de Cirurgia Torácica (2024) published by Even3 Publicações eBooks

Best Publications

  • Trends in incidence and prognosis for head and neck cancer in the United States: A site-specific analysis of the SEER database

    André Lopes Carvalho;Inês Nobuko Nishimoto;Joseph A. Califano;Luiz Paulo Kowalski

  • Risk factors for oral cancer in Brazil: a case-control study.

    Eduardo L. Franco;Luiz P. Kowalski;Benedito V. Oliveira;M. Paula Curado

  • Complications of craniofacial resection for malignant tumors of the skull base: Report of an International Collaborative Study

    Ian Ganly;Snehal G. Patel;Bhuvanesh Singh;Dennis H. Kraus

  • Global oral health inequalities in incidence and outcomes for oral cancer: causes and solutions.

    Newell Walter Johnson;S. Warnakulasuriya;P.C. Gupta;E. Dimba

  • Surgical margins in head and neck cancer: A contemporary review

    Michael L. Hinni;Alfio Ferlito;Margaret S. Brandwein-Gensler;Robert P. Takes

  • Prognostic significance of the distribution of neck node metastasis from oral carcinoma.

    Luiz P. Kowalski;Rogério Bagietto;José R. L. Lara;Rogério L. Santos

  • COVID-19 pandemic: Effects and evidence-based recommendations for otolaryngology and head and neck surgery practice.

    Luiz P. Kowalski;Alvaro Sanabria;John A. Ridge;Wai Tong Ng

  • Craniofacial resection for malignant paranasal sinus tumors: Report of an International Collaborative Study

    Ian Ganly;Snehal G. Patel;Bhuvanesh Singh;Dennis H. Kraus

  • Prognostic Factors in Carcinoma of the Penis: Multivariate Analysis of 145 Patients Treated with Amputation and Lymphadenectomy

    Ademar Lopes;Geraldo Santiago Hidalgo;Luiz Paulo Kowalski;Humberto Torloni

  • Predictive factors of occult metastasis and prognosis of clinical stages I and II squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue and floor of the mouth

    Tânia Mara Pimenta Amaral;Addah Regina Da Silva Freire;André Lopes Carvalho;Clóvis Antônio Lopes Pinto

  • Results of salvage treatment of the neck in patients with oral cancer.

    Luiz P. Kowalski

  • Prognostic factors in head and neck adenoid cystic carcinoma

    Danyel Elias da Cruz Perez;Fábio de Abreu Alves;Inês Nobuko Nishimoto;Oslei Paes de Almeida

  • Lateness of diagnosis of oral and oropharyngeal carcinoma: factors related to the tumour, the patient and health professionals.

    Luiz P. Kowalski;Eduardo L. Franco;Humberto Torloni;Antonio S. Fava

  • Staging and grading of oral squamous cell carcinoma: An update.

    Alhadi Almangush;Antti A. Mäkitie;Antti A. Mäkitie;Asterios Triantafyllou;Remco de Bree

  • Relationship between dental factors and risk of upper aerodigestive tract cancer

    A. M Velly;E. L Franco;N Schlecht;J Pintos

  • Surgical complications after thyroid surgery performed in a cancer hospital

    João Gonçalves Filho;Luiz Paulo Kowalski

  • Pectoralis major and other myofascial/myocutaneous flaps in head and neck cancer reconstruction: experience with 437 cases at a single institution.

    José Guilherme Vartanian;André Lopes Carvalho;Solange Maria T. Carvalho;Lia Mizobe

  • Effect of smoking cessation and tobacco type on the risk of cancers of the upper aero-digestive tract in Brazil.

    Nicolas F. Schlecht;Eduardo L. Franco;Javier Pintos;Luiz P. Kowalski

  • Natural history of untreated head and neck cancer.

    Luiz P. Kowalski;André L. Carvalho

  • Elective neck dissection in oral carcinoma: a critical review of the evidence

    Luiz P. Kowalski;A. Sanabria

Frequent Co-Authors

Alfio Ferlito
Alfio Ferlito University of Udine
Alessandra Rinaldo
Alessandra Rinaldo University of Udine
Jatin P. Shah
Jatin P. Shah Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Ashok R. Shaha
Ashok R. Shaha Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Remco de Bree
Remco de Bree Utrecht University
Tuula Salo
Tuula Salo University of Helsinki
Snehal G. Patel
Snehal G. Patel Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Ricardo R. Brentani
Ricardo R. Brentani Ludwig Cancer Research
Kerry D. Olsen
Kerry D. Olsen Mayo Clinic
C. René Leemans
C. René Leemans University of Amsterdam

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