Level IIb lymph nodes metastasis in elective supraomohyoid neck dissection for oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma: A molecular-based study

Laryngoscope

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1636-1640

  Elsheikh, Mohamed Nasser ^a,c   Mahfouz, Magdy Elsayed ^a   Elsheikh, Ehab ^b  

^a TANTA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Tanta Cancer Center   (Egypt)

^c NONE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Cytokeratin 20; Neck metastasis; Oral cavity carcinoma; RT PCR; Selective neck dissection

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN 20;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER STAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYOID BONE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CARCINOMA; NECK DISSECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TONGUE CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ELECTROPHORESIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; KERATIN-20; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NECK DISSECTION; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 24944461392     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000176540.33486.c3     Document Type: Article

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