Primary neck management among patients with cancer of the oral cavity without clinical nodal metastases: A decision and sensitivity analysis

Head and Neck

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 582-590

  Kaneko, Satoshi ^a,c   Yoshimura, Takesumi ^a   Ikemura, Kunio ^b   Shirasuna, Kanemitsu ^b   Kusukawa, Jingo ^b   Ohishi, Masamichi ^b   Shiba, Ryosuke ^b   Sunakawa, Hajime ^b   Tominaga, Kazuhiro ^b   Sugihara, Kazumasa ^b   Shinohara, Masanori ^b   Katsuki, Takeshi ^b   Yanagisawa, Shigetaka ^b   Kurokawa, Hideo ^b   Mimura, Tamotsu ^b   Ikeda, Hisazumi ^b   Yamabe, Shigeru ^b   Ozeki, Satoru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b Kyushu Working Group for Oral Cancer   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Decision making; Lymphatic metastasis; Oral cancer; Prophylactic neck dissection; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOUTH CANCER; NECK DISSECTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STANDARD;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DECISION TREES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; PALATAL NEOPLASMS; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036267042     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.10101     Document Type: Article

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