Tumor thickness predicts cervical metastasis in patients with Stage I/II carcinoma of the tongue

Cancer

Volumn 82, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1443-1448

  Asakage, Takahiro ^a   Yokose, Tomoyuki ^b   Mukai, Kiyoshi ^b   Tsugane, Shoichiro ^b   Tsubono, Yoshitaka ^c   Asai, Masao ^a   Ebihara, Satoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carcinoma of the tongue; Conservative supraomohyoid neck dissection; Multivariate analysis; Tumor thickness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLOSSECTOMY; HUMAN; MALE; NECK METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONGUE CARCINOMA; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032523057     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980415)82:8<1443::AID-CNCR2>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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