The TNM classification revisited : Role of anatomic and functional imaging in head and neck cancer

Acta Oto-Rhino-Laryngologica Belgica

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 149-153

  Hermans, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Head and neck neoplasms, diagnosis; Khead and neck neoplasms, staging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033249763     PISSN: 00016497     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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