Selective neck dissection for node-positive necks in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: A word of caution

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 79-81

  De Oliveira Santos, André Bandiera ^a   Cernea, Claudio Roberto ^a,b   Inoue, Milton ^a   Ferraz, Alberto Rossetti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; NECK DISSECTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECURRENT CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 31144456464     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 08864470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.132.1.79     Document Type: Article

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