Neck dissection after radiochemotherapy in patients with locoregionally advanced head and neck cancer

Clinical and Translational Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 812-816

  López Rodríguez, Mario ^a   Cerezo Padellano, Laura ^a   Martín Martín, Margarita ^a   Couñago Lorenzo, Felipe ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE LA PRINCESA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Concurrent chemoradiation; Neck dissection; Neck management; Regional recurrence

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NECK DISSECTION; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALVAGE THERAPY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ALGORITHMS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 60549098818     PISSN: 1699048X     EISSN: 16993055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12094-008-0294-6     Document Type: Article

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