Cervical lymph node metastasis in oral cancer: The importance of even microscopic extracapsular spread

Oral Oncology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 130-137

  Woolgar, J A ^a   Rogers, S N ^b   Lowe, D ^b   Brown, J S ^b   Vaughan, E D ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY DENTAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AINTREE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cervical metastases; Extracapsular spread; Head and neck neoplasms; Oral cancer; Prognosis; Squamous cell carcinoma; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; MOUTH CARCINOMA; NECK DISSECTION; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NECK; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037295344     PISSN: 13688375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1368-8375(02)00030-1     Document Type: Article

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