Correlation between tumor consistency and cervical metastasis in tongue carcinoma

Head and Neck

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 229-233

  Ogura, Ichiro ^a   Amagasa, Teruo ^a   Miyakura, Takeshi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Consistency; Induration; Lymph node metastasis; Oral cancer; Tongue carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; HARDNESS; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THICKNESS; TONGUE CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034005129     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0347(200005)22:3<229::AID-HED4>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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