Is routine inclusion of level IV necessary in neck dissection for clinically N0 supraglottic carcinoma?

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 287-290

  Çaǧli, Sedat ^a   Yüce, Imdat ^a   Güney, Ercihan ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK;

EID: 33846639312     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2006.08.009     Document Type: Article

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