Metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the neck from an unknown primary: Management options and patterns of relapse

Head and Neck

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 236-246

  Iganej, Shahrokh ^a   Kagan, Robert ^a   Anderson, Paul ^a   Rao, Aroor ^a   Tome, Michael ^a   Wang, Ricardo ^a   Dowlatshahi, Morteza ^a   Cosmatos, Harry ^a   Morgan, Thomas ^a  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Unknown primary

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NECK DISSECTION; NECK METASTASIS; OCCULT CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALVAGE THERAPY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BIOPSY;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0036185302     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.10017     Document Type: Article

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