Incidence of unsuspected metastases in lateral cervical cysts

Laryngoscope

Volumn 110, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1637-1641

  Gourin, Christine G ^a   Johnson, Jonas T ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

cervical squamous carcinoma; Cystic metastasis; cysts

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; NECK CYST; NECK TUMOR; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CYSTS; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; TONSILLAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033779588     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200010000-00012     Document Type: Article

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