Elective neck dissection for the management of the NO neck in early cancer of the oral tongue: Need for a randomized controlled trial

Head and Neck

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 618-624

  D'Cruz, Anil K ^a   Siddachari, Ravichand C ^a   Walvekar, Rohan R ^a,b   Pantvaidya, Gouri H ^a   Chaukar, Devendra A ^a   Deshpande, Mandar S ^a   Pai, Prathamesh S ^a   Chaturvedi, Pankaj ^a  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Elective neck dissection; N0 neck; Oral cancer; Tongue cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EARLY CANCER; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; NECK DISSECTION; NERVE TUMOR; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TONGUE CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 66349092603     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20988     Document Type: Article

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