Level V lymph node dissection in oral and oropharyngeal carcinoma patients with clinically node-positive neck: Is it absolutely necessary?

Laryngoscope

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1232-1235

  Lim, Young Chang ^a   Koo, Bon Seok ^b   Lee, Jin Seok ^b   Choi, Eun Chang ^b  

^a Konkuk University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Clinically positive neck; Level V lymph node; Neck dissection; Oral and oropharyngeal carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MOUTH CARCINOMA; NECK DISSECTION; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FOLLOW UP; LYMPH NODE; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; OROPHARYNX TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM STAGING; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33747156688     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000224363.04459.8b     Document Type: Article

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