Prognostic assessment of sonography and tumor volumetry in advanced cancer of the head and neck by use of doppler ultrasonography

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 596-601

  Dietz, Reas ^a   Delorme, Stefan ^a   Rudat, Volker ^a   Zuna, Ivan ^a   Conradt, Christian ^b   Vanselow, Bernhard ^a   Weidauer, Hagen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Institute of Medical Biometry and Informatics   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; HEAD CANCER; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; NECK CANCER; PROGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0034043775     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0194-5998(00)70111-2     Document Type: Article

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