Improved survival for patients with clinically T1/T2, N0 tongue tumors undergoing a prophylactic neck dissection

Head and Neck

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 517-525

  Haddadin, Khaldoun J ^a   Soutar, David S ^a   Oliver, Richard J ^b   Webster, Martin H ^a   Robertson, Andrew G ^c   MacDonald, Donald G ^b  

^a CANNIESBURN PLASTIC SURGERY UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b GLASGOW DENTAL HOSPITAL AND SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c BEATSON WEST OF SCOTLAND CANCER CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intraoral squamous cell carcinoma; Neck dissection; Prophylactic; T1 T2 N0; Tongue

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; NECK DISSECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TONGUE TUMOR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032878325     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0347(199909)21:6<517::AID-HED4>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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