Nodal volume reduction after concurrent chemo- and radiotherapy: Correlation between initial CT and histopathologic findings

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 310-314

  Labadie, Robert E ^a   Yarbrough, Wendell G ^a   Weissler, Mark C ^a   Pillsbury, Harold C ^a   Mukherji, Suresh K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CONTRAST MEDIUM; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NECK DISSECTION; NEUTROPENIA; RADIATION DOSE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033970299     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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