Do PET and SNB reduce the rate of elective neck dissection? A hypothesis still in need of validation [14]

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2874-2875

  Smith, Benjamin D ^a   Lolly, Brian E ^a   Haffty, Bruce G ^a   Wilson, Lynn D ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG MEGADOSE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; NECK DISSECTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE; VALIDATION PROCESS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MOUTH TUMOR; NOTE; OROPHARYNX TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SCINTISCANNING; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM STAGING; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 18444409006     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2005.05.338     Document Type: Letter

References (2)

1. Kovács AF, Dobert N, Gaa J, et al: Positron emission tomography in combination with sentinel node biopsy reduces the rate of elective neck dissections in the treatment of oral and oropharyngeal cancer. J Clin Oncol 22:3973-3980, 2004
2. Ross GL, Shoaib T, Soutar DS, et al: The First International Conference on Sentinel Node Biopsy in Mucosal Head and Neck Cancer and adoption of a multicenter trial protocol. Ann Surg Oncol 9:406-410, 2002