Branchiogenic carcinoma - Conceptual or true clinico-pathological entity?

Cancer Treatment Reviews

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 106-114

  Jereczek Fossa, Barbara A ^a   Casadio, Chiara ^a   Jassem, Jacek ^b   Luzzatto, Felipe ^a   Viale, Giuseppe ^a,c   Bruschini, Roberto ^a   Chiesa, Fausto ^a   Orecchia, Roberto ^a,c  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Branchial cyst; Branchiogenic carcinoma; Cystic lymph node metastasis; Malignant branchioma; Occult primary; Squamous cell head and neck carcinoma

Indexed keywords

BRANCHIOGENIC CARCINOMA; BRANCHIOGENIC CYST; CANCER INCIDENCE; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPLASIA; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; NECK CYST; NECK METASTASIS; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL TIME; TONSIL CARCINOMA;

EID: 17444420721     PISSN: 03057372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctrv.2004.12.007     Document Type: Article

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