Screening for distant metastases in patients with head and neck cancer: What is the current clinical practice?

Clinical Otolaryngology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 438-443

  Brouwer, J ^a   De Bree, Remco ^a   Hoekstra, O S ^a   Langendijk, J A ^a   Castelijns, J A ^a   Leemans, C R ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METASTASIS; NETHERLANDS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; SECOND CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

BONE AND BONES; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LIVER; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC;

EID: 26244432573     PISSN: 17494478     EISSN: 17494486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2273.2005.01068.x     Document Type: Article

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