Why promote an educational process for separating level II into level IIA and level IIB in neck dissection?

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Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 229-232

  Talmi, Yoav P ^a   Rinaldo, Alessandra ^b   Robbins, K Thomas ^c   Ferlito, Alfio ^c,d  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

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

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY NERVE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; EDITORIAL; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; HYOID BONE; JUGULAR VEIN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; NECK DISSECTION; NECK METASTASIS; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL BASE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; NECK; NECK DISSECTION;

EID: 10844229270     PISSN: 03011569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000081118     Document Type: Editorial

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