Significance of extracapsular lymph node metastases in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Current Opinion in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 119-123

  Puri, Sajeev K ^a   Fan, Chun Yang ^a   Hanna, Ehab ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MUCOSA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037378830     PISSN: 10689508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00020840-200304000-00010     Document Type: Review

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