Retropharyngeal lymph node metastasis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Prognostic value and staging categories

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1445-1452

  Jun, Ma ^a   Liu, Lizhi ^a   Tang, Linglong ^a   Zong, Jingfeng ^a   Lin, Aihua ^b   Lu, Taixiang ^a   Cui, Nianji ^a   Cui, Chunyan ^a   Li, Li ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33947412802     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-06-2059     Document Type: Article

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