Tumor budding is an independent prognostic marker in early stage oral squamous cell carcinoma: With special reference to the mode of invasion and worst pattern of invasion

• Shota Shimizu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

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• Akihiro Miyazaki,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

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• Tomoko Sonoda,

  Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

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• Kazushige Koike,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

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• Kazuhiro Ogi,

  Roles Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

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• Jun-ichi Kobayashi,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

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• Takeshi Kaneko,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

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• Tomohiro Igarashi,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

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• Megumi Ueda,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

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• Hironari Dehari,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

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• Akira Miyakawa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

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• Tadashi Hasegawa,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgical Pathology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

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• Hiroyoshi Hiratsuka

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hiratuka@sapmed.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Oral Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6871-9466

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