Treatment of the clinically negative neck in oral squamous cell carcinoma

Laryngoscope

Volumn 109, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1160-1164

  Persky, Mark S ^a   Lagmay, Victor M ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Elective neck dissection; N0 neck; oral cavity carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CARCINOMA; NECK DISSECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NECK; NECK DISSECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0033023996     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199907000-00029     Document Type: Article

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