Is dissection of levels 4 and 5 justified for cN0 laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancer?

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 127, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1202-1206

  Katilmis, Hüseyin ^a   Öztürkcan, Sedat ^a   Özdemir, Ismail ^a   Tuna, Bilge ^a   Güvenç, Işil Adadan ^b,c   Özkul, Yilmaz ^a  

^a ATATURK TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery   (Turkey)

^c NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Carcinoma; Hypopharyngeal neoplasm; Laryngeal neoplasm; Lymphatic metastasis; Neck dissection; Neck nodes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 35348985397     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016480701230951     Document Type: Article

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