The future of the TNM staging system in laryngeal cancer: Time for a debate?

European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Volumn 265, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1441-1443

  Ferlito, Alfio ^a,b   Rinaldo, Alessandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMORBIDITY; DISTANT METASTASIS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LARYNX CANCER; LYMPH NODE; ONCOLOGY; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURGEON; VOCAL CORD;

FORECASTING; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING;

EID: 54849428715     PISSN: 09374477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00405-008-0772-z     Document Type: Editorial

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