Neck level-specific nodal metastases in oropharyngeal cancer: Is there a role for selective neck dissection after definitive radiation therapy?

Head and Neck

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 960-967

  Doweck, Ilana ^a   Robbins, K Thomas ^a,b   Mendenhall, William M ^a   Hinerman, Russell W ^a   Morris, Christopher ^a   Amdur, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Neck levels; Nodal metastases patterns; Oropharyngeal cancer; Selective neck dissection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALVAGE THERAPY; TONGUE CARCINOMA; TONSIL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; TONSILLAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0242384069     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.10315     Document Type: Article

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