Value of postoperative radiotherapy in patients with pathologic N1 neck disease

Head and Neck

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 875-882

  Jäckel, Martin C ^a   Ambrosch, Petra ^b   Christiansen, Hans ^c   Martin, Alexios ^c   Steiner, Wolfgang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adjuvant radiotherapy; Laser surgery; Lymphatic metastasis; Recurrence; Upper aerodigestive tract neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AERODIGESTIVE TRACT CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 47549093772     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20794     Document Type: Article

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