Screening for distant metastases in patients with head and neck cancer: Is chest computed tomography sufficient?

Laryngoscope

Volumn 115, Issue 10 I, 2005, Pages 1813-1817

  Brouwer, Jolijn ^a   De Bree, Remco ^a,b   Hoekstra, Otto S ^a   Golding, Richard P ^a   Langendijk, Johannes A ^a   Castelijns, Jonas A ^a   Leemans, C René ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chest computed tomography scan; Distant metastases; Screening

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THORAX EXAMINATION;

ALGORITHMS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 26244465166     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000174954.51514.b7     Document Type: Article

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