Positive sentinel lymph nodes are a negative prognostic factor for survival in T1-2 oral/oropharyngeal cancer-a long-term study on 103 patients

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 233-239

  Kovács, Adorján F ^a   Stefenelli, Ulrich ^b   Seitz, Oliver ^a   Middendorp, Marcus ^a   Diener, Jürgen ^a   Sader, Robert ^a   Grünwald, Frank ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b Services in Statistics   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; SODIUM THIOSULFATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; NECK DISSECTION; OROPHARYNX CANCER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 59449095188     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-008-0150-5     Document Type: Article

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