The prognostic impact of metastatic pattern of lymph nodes in patients with oral and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas

European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Volumn 261, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 270-275

  Wenzel, S ^a   Sagowski, C ^a   Kehrl, W ^b   Metternich, F U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b Dept Otorhinolaryngology Hd N ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Capsular rupture; Distant metastases; Lymph node metastasis; Oral carcinoma; Oropharyngeal carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MOUTH CARCINOMA; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 2542464203     PISSN: 09374477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00405-003-0678-8     Document Type: Article

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