Management of N0 neck in head and neck cancer: Current controversies

Onkologie

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 363-367

  Dunne A A ^a   Budach, V G ^b   Wagner, W ^c   Werner, J A ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

IMRT; Lymphogenic metastatic spread; N0 neck; Neck dissection; Prognostic marker

Indexed keywords

TUMOR MARKER;

CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IRRADIATION; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LIP CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; MOUTH CAVITY; OROPHARYNX; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALIVARY GLAND; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT PLANNING; XEROSTOMIA;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT;

EID: 4644350303     PISSN: 0378584X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000079089     Document Type: Review

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