Diagnostic evaluation of squamous cell carcinoma metastatic to cervical lymph nodes from an unknown head and neck primary site

Head and Neck

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 739-744

  Mendenhall, William M ^a   Mancuso, Anthony A ^a   Parsons, James T ^a   Stringer, Scott P ^a   Cassisi, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic tests; Head and neck neoplasms; Lymph nodes; Lymphatic metastasis; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TONSILLECTOMY; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TONSILLECTOMY;

EID: 0031710265     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0347(199812)20:8<739::AID-HED13>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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