Unexpected findings in neck dissection for squamous cell carcinoma: Incidence and implications

Head and Neck

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 28-35

  Sheahan, Patrick ^a   Hafidh, Maky ^a   Toner, Mary ^b   Timon, Conrad ^a  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Ectopic thyroid; Leukemia; Neck dissection; Squamous cell carcinoma; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ECTOPIC THYROID GLAND; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; TUBERCULOSIS; WARTHIN TUMOR;

ADENOLYMPHOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CRICOID CARTILAGE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE;

EID: 11144271966     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20110     Document Type: Review

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