Initial CT findings in early tongue and oral floor cancer as predictors of late neck metastasis

Oral Oncology

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 793-797

  Furusawa, Jun ^a   Oridate, Nobuhiko ^a   Suzuki, Fumiyuki ^a   Homma, Akihiro ^a   Furuta, Yasushi ^a   Fukuda, Satoshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

CT; Early oral floor cancer; Early tongue cancer; Late neck metastasis; Short axis diameter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; NECK METASTASIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TONGUE CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 47249138730     PISSN: 13688375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2007.10.004     Document Type: Article

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