Melanoma metastatic to cervical lymph nodes: Can radiotherapy replace formal dissection after local excision of nodal disease?

Head and Neck

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 718-721

  Ballo, Matthew T ^a   Garden, Adam S ^a   Myers, Jeffrey N ^a   Lee, Jeffrey E ^a   Diaz Jr , Eduardo M ^a   Sturgis, Erich M ^a   Morrison, William H ^a   Gershenwald, Jeffrey E ^a   Ross, Merrick I ^a   Weber, Randal S ^a   Ang, K Kian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Melanoma; Radiation; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BONE NECROSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MANDIBLE; MELANOMA; NECK DISSECTION; OTALGIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 23444456436     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20233     Document Type: Review

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