Patterns of metastases to the upper jugular lymph nodes (The 'Submuscular recess')

Head and Neck

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 682-686

  Talmi, Yoav P ^a   Hoffman, Henry T ^b   Horowitz, Zeev ^a   McCulloch, Timothy M ^b   Funk, Gerry F ^b   Graham, Scott M ^b   Peleg, Michael ^a   Yahalom, Ran ^a   Teicher, Shlomo ^a   Kronenberg, Jona ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Lymph nodes; Metastases; Neck dissection; Spinal accessory nerve; Submuscular recess

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; NECK DISSECTION; NECK METASTASIS; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; JUGULAR VEINS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031683987     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0347(199812)20:8<682::AID-HED4>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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