Postradiotherapy neck dissection for lymph node-positive head and neck cancer: The use of computed tomography to manage the neck

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1421-1427

  Liauw, Stanley L ^a   Mancuso, Anthony A ^a   Amdur, Robert J ^a   Morris, Christopher G ^a   Villaret, Douglas B ^a   Werning, John W ^a   Mendenhall, William M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; PACLITAXEL;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NECK DISSECTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645450830     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2005.04.6052     Document Type: Article

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