Multicentric prospective study on the prevalence of sublevel IIB metastases in head and neck cancer

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 133, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 897-903

  Bolzoni Villaret, Andrea ^a   Piazza, Cesare ^a   Peretti, Giorgio ^a   Calabrese, Luca ^b   Ansarin, Mohssen ^b   Chiesa, Fausto ^b   Pellini, Raul ^c   Spriano, Giuseppe ^c   Nicolai, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^c REGINA ELENA NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HEAD CANCER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MOUTH CANCER; NECK CANCER; NECK DISSECTION; OROPHARYNX CANCER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAROTID GLAND CANCER; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THYROID CANCER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34548799862     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 08864470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.133.9.897     Document Type: Article

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