Surgery and adjuvant radiotherapy in patients with cutaneous head and neck squamous cell carcinoma metastatic to lymph nodes: Combined treatment should be considered best practice

Laryngoscope

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 870-875

  Veness, Michael J ^a   Morgan, Gary J ^a   Palme, Carsten E ^a   Gebski, Val ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adjuvant; Lymph nodes; Parotid; Radiotherapy; Skin cancer

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PAROTID GLAND TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SKIN CANCER; SKIN METASTASIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECK; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 18044372236     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.MLG.0000158349.64337.ED     Document Type: Review

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