The N staging system in nasopharyngeal carcinoma with radiation therapy oncology group guidelines for lymph node levels based on magnetic resonance imaging

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 14, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 7497-7503

  Mao, Yan Ping ^a,b   Liang, Shao Bo ^a,b   Liu, Li Zhi ^a,b   Chen, Yong ^a,b   Sun, Ying ^a,b   Tang, Ling Long ^a,b   Tian, Li ^a,b   Lin, Ai Hua ^b   Liu, Meng Zhong ^a,b   Li, Li ^a,b   Ma, Jun ^a,b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NECROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNX TUMOR; NECK; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; FEMALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NECK; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 58149352910     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-08-0271     Document Type: Article

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