Selective lymph node dissection following hyperfractionated accelerated radio-(chemo-)therapy for advanced head and neck cancer

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 178, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 363-368

  Hehr, Thomas ^a   Classen, Johannes ^a   Schreck, Ulrike ^a   Glocker, Stefan ^a   Koitschev, Assen ^a   Bamberg, Michael ^a   Budach, Wilfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Advanced head and neck cancer; Hyperfractionated accelerated radio (chemo )therapy; Selective lymph node dissection

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN C;

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NECK DISSECTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOMYCIN; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0036084349     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-002-0965-0     Document Type: Article

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