CT staging and surveillance of the thorax in patients with newly diagnosed and recurrent squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: Is it necessary?

European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Volumn 263, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 943-945

  Glynn, Fergal ^a,b   Brennan, Sinead ^a   O'Leary, Gerard ^a  

^a SOUTH INFIRMARY VICTORIA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b NONE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Head and neck neoplasms; Squamous cell carcinoma; Staging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33748638636     PISSN: 09374477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00405-006-0094-y     Document Type: Article

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