Selective neck dissection (IIA, III): A rational replacement for complete functional neck dissection in patients with N0 supraglottic and glottic squamous carcinoma

Laryngoscope

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 676-679

  Ferlito, Alfio ^a,c,d   Silver, Carl E ^b   Rinaldo, Alessandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Department of Surgical Sciences ^*

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Functional neck dissection; Laryngeal cancer; Modified radical neck dissection; Selective neck dissection; Supraglottic and glottic squamous carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; NECK DISSECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 41849147913     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e31815f6f25     Document Type: Review

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