Rethinking squamous cell carcinoma: Which are high risk, which could benefit from lymph node dissection, what's coming up in the future?

Journal of Drugs in Dermatology

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 903-906

  Bergstrom, Kendra Gail ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SKIN TUMOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 58249087157     PISSN: 15459616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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