Impact of Retropharyngeal Lymph Node Metastasis in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 169-173

  Gross, Neil D ^a   Ellingson, Todd W ^a   Wax, Mark K ^a   Cohen, James I ^a   Andersen, Peter E ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MOUTH CANCER; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE RISK; RETROPHARYNGEAL LYMPH NODE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL APPROACH;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0842299651     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.130.2.169     Document Type: Article

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