Prognostic significance of microscopic and macroscopic extracapsular spread from metastatic tumor in the cervical lymph nodes

Oral Oncology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 747-751

  Ferlito, Alfio ^a   Rinaldo, Alessandra ^a   Devaney, Kenneth O ^b   MacLennan, Ken ^c   Myers, Jeffrey N ^d   Petruzzelli, Guy J ^e   Shaha, Ashok R ^f   Genden, Eric M ^g   Johnson, Jonas T ^h   De Carvalho, Marcos B ⁱ   Myers, Eugene N ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b Foote Health System   (United States)

^c ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^g MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ HOSPITAL HELIÓPOLIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Carcinoma of the head and neck; Extracapsular spread; Lymph node metastasis; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; NECK DISSECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFT TISSUE DISEASE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NECK; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0037004392     PISSN: 13688375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1368-8375(02)00052-0     Document Type: Review

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