Planned postradiotherapy neck dissection: Rationale and clinical outcomes

Laryngoscope

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 121-128

  Sewall, Gregory K ^a   Palazzi Churas, Kerrin L ^a   Richards, Gregory M ^a   Hartig, Gregory K ^a   Harari, Paul M ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Neck dissection; Radiation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; NECK DISSECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33846132302     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000246709.93530.72     Document Type: Review

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