Effectiveness of selective neck dissection in the treatment of the clinically positive neck

Head and Neck

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1231-1236

  Patel, Rajan S ^a   Clark, Jonathan R ^a   Gao, Kan ^a   O'Brien, Christopher J ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Metastases; Recurrence; Selective neck dissection; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SELECTIVE NECK DISSECTION; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 51949092176     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20870     Document Type: Article

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