Long term results of primary radiotherapy with/without neck dissection for squamous cell cancer of the base of tongue

Head and Neck

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 668-673

  Harrison, Louis B ^a,b   Lee, Henry J ^a   Pfister, David G ^a   Kraus, Dennis H ^a   White, Carol ^a   Raben, Adam ^a   Zelefsky, Michael J ^a   Strong, Elliot W ^a   Shah, Jatin P ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Base of tongue; Brachytherapy; Neck dissection; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; IRIDIUM 192;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TONGUE CARCINOMA; TRACHEOTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, SQUAMOUS CELL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031687465     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0347(199812)20:8<668::AID-HED2>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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