Elective neck dissection in early-stage oral squamous cell carcinoma - Does it influence recurrence and survival?

Head and Neck

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-11

  Capote, Ana ^a   Escorial, Veronica ^a   Muñoz Guerra, Mario F ^a   Rodriguez Campo, Francisco J ^a   Gamallo, Carlos ^a   Naval, Luis ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE LA PRINCESA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Early stages; Elective neck dissection; Neck recurrences; Occult metastases; Oral carcinoma; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOG RANK TEST; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CARCINOMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECK DISSECTION; OCCULT CANCER; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RECURRENCE RISK; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPAIN; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 33845948001     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20482     Document Type: Article

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