New TNM staging criteria for head and neck tumors

Seminars in Surgical Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 30-42

  O'Sullivan, Brian ^a   Shah, Jatin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck; Malignancy; Staging; TNM

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; METASTASIS; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PALPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

FORECASTING; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASM STAGING; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 0141790076     PISSN: 87560437     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ssu.10019     Document Type: Review

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