Salvage treatment for neck recurrence after irradiation alone for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma with clinically positive neck nodes

Head and Neck

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 591-594

  Mabanta, Sheilaine R ^a   Mendenhall, William M ^a   Stringer, Scott P ^b   Cassisi, Nicholas J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Carcinoma, squamous cell; Head and neck neoplasms; Metastasis, lymphatic; Radiotherapy; Salvage surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN SULFATE; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; THIOTEPA; VINCRISTINE SULFATE;

ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NECK CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALVAGE THERAPY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032844450     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0347(199910)21:7<591::AID-HED1>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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