Lymph node-positive head and neck cancer treated with definitive radiotherapy: Can treatment response determine the extent of neck dissection?

Cancer

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1076-1082

  Yeung, Anamaria R ^a   Liauw, Stanley L ^b   Amdur, Robert J ^a   Mancuso, Anthony A ^c   Hinerman, Russell W ^a   Morris, Christopher G ^a   Villaret, Douglas B ^a   Werning, John W ^a   Mendenhall, William M ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Lymph node positive head and neck cancer; Neck dissection; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION RESPONSE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 39749092449     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.23279     Document Type: Article

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