Ultrasonographic changes in malignant neck nodes during radiotherapy in head and neck squamous carcinoma

Australasian Radiology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 113-118

  Correa, P D ^a   Arya, S ^a   Laskar, S G ^a   Shrivastava, S K ^a   Dinshaw, K A ^a   Gupta, T ^a   Agarwal, Jai Prakash ^a  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Head and neck squamous cell cancer; Neck nodes; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; NECK CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 18444380224     PISSN: 00048461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1673.2005.01357.x     Document Type: Article

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