Neck dissection following concurrent chemoradiation for advanced head and neck carcinoma: Pathologic findings and complications

Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 452-456

  Christopoulos, Apostolos ^a   Nguyen Tan, Phuc Felix ^a   Tabet, Jean Claude ^a   Fortin, Bernard ^a   Soulières, Denis ^a   Charpentier, Danielle ^a   Guertin, Louis ^a  

^a NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complications; Head and neck cancer; Neck dissection

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CELLULITIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOUTH CARCINOMA; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NECK DISSECTION; OPERATION DURATION; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SHOULDER PAIN; WEAKNESS; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 64549110932     PISSN: 19160216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7070.2008.0087     Document Type: Article

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