Diagnosis and treatment of 39 patients with cervical lymph node metastases of squamous cell carcinoma with an unknown primary, referred to the Netherlands Cancer Institute/Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital in the period 1979-98;Diagnostiek en behandeling van 39 patienten met halskliermetastasen van plaveiselcelcarcinoom van onbekende primaire origine, verwezen naar het Nederlands Kanker Instituut/Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Ziekenhuis, 1979/'98

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 144, Issue 28, 2000, Pages 1355-1360

  Klop, W M C ^a,b   Balm, A J M ^a   Keus, R B ^a   Hilgers, F J M ^a   Tan, I B ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; NETHERLANDS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034622262     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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