Tumour thickness predicts cervical nodal metastases and survival in early oral tongue cancer

Oral Oncology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 386-390

  O charoenrat, P ^a   Pillai, G ^b   Patel, S ^b   Fisher, C ^b   Archer, D ^b   Eccles, S ^c   Rhys Evans, P ^b  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Nodal metastasis; Squamous cell carcinoma; Tongue cancer; Tumour thickness

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARAMETER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THICKNESS; TONGUE CARCINOMA; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037409390     PISSN: 13688375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1368-8375(02)00142-2     Document Type: Article

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