Neck dissections: A practical guide for the reporting histopathologist

Current Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 499-511

  Woolgar, Julia ^a   Triantafyllou, Asterios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Head and neck; Lymph node; Metastasis; Squamous cell carcinoma; Surgical neck dissection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NECK DISSECTION; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL APPROACH;

EID: 35848929263     PISSN: 09686053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cdip.2007.06.007     Document Type: Article

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