Treatment of contralateral N0 neck in early squamous cell carcinoma of the oral tongue: Elective neck dissection versus observation

Laryngoscope

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 461-465

  Lim, Young Chang ^a   Lee, Jin Seok ^b   Koo, Bon Seok ^b   Kim, Se Heon ^b   Kim, Young Ho ^b   Choi, Eun Chang ^b  

^a Konkuk University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Contralateral N0 neck; Early oral tongue cancer; Elective neck management

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOG RANK TEST; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NECK DISSECTION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TONGUE CARCINOMA; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GLOSSECTOMY; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TONGUE TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOSSECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645526131     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000195366.91395.9b     Document Type: Review

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