Feasibility and cost-effectiveness of sentinel lymph node radiolocalization in stage N0 head and neck cancer

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 129, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1105-1109

  Kosuda, Shigeru ^a   Kusano, Shoichi ^a   Kohno, Naoyuki ^b   Ohno, Yoshihiro ^b   Tanabe, Tetsuya ^a   Kitahara, Satoshi ^a   Tamai, Seiichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHYTATE TC 99M; TECHNETIUM TIN COLLOID TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH INSURANCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NECK DISSECTION; PREVALENCE; REIMBURSEMENT; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION TREES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM STAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0141926459     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.129.10.1105     Document Type: Article

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