Prevalence of lymph nodes in the apex of level V: A plea against the necessity to dissect the apex of level V in mucosal head and neck cancer

Head and Neck

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 963-969

  Hamoir, Marc ^a   Shah, Jatin P ^b   Desuter, Gauthier ^a   Grégoire, Vincent ^a   Ledeghen, Stéphane ^a   Plouin Gaudon, Isabelle ^a   Rombaux, Philippe ^a   Weynand, Birgit ^a   Lengelé, Benoît ^a  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Lymph nodes; Neck dissection; Neck metastases; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NECK DISSECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 27644445175     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20264     Document Type: Article

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