The clinical significance of follow-up sonography in the detection of cervical lymph node metastases in patients with stage I or II squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 112-117

  Hayashi, Takafumi ^a   Ito, Jusuke ^a   Taira, Shuhzou ^a   Katsura, Kouji ^a   Shingaki, Susumi ^a   Hoshina, Hideyuki ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TONGUE CARCINOMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LYMPH NODE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TONGUE TUMOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0141834962     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1079-2104(03)00259-2     Document Type: Article

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