Relevance of skip metastases for squamous cell carcinoma of the oral tongue and the floor of the mouth

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 460-465

  Dias, Fernando L ^a,b   Lima, Roberto A ^a   Kligerman, Jacob ^a   Farias, Terence P ^a   Soares, Jose Roberto N ^a   Manfro, Gabriel ^a   Sa, Geraldo M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CÂNCER   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; MOUTH CARCINOMA; NECK DISSECTION; NECK METASTASIS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TONGUE CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MOUTH FLOOR; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NECK; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33144486133     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2005.09.025     Document Type: Article

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