A preliminary study on sentinel lymph node biopsy: Feasibility and predictive ability in oral cavity cancer

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 257-262

  Chikamatsu, Kazuaki ^a   Kamada, Hideo ^a   Ninomiya, Hiroshi ^a   Takahashi, Katsumasa ^a   Sakurai, Tsutomu ^a   Oriuchi, Noboru ^a   Furuya, Nobuhiko ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Neck dissection; Sentinel lymph node

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GAMMA SCINTIGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; MOUTH CARCINOMA; MOUTH CAVITY; NECK DISSECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

EID: 3142594083     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02985008     Document Type: Article

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