Primary tumor thickness as a risk factor for Contralateral cervical metastases in T1/T2 oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma

Laryngoscope

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 883-888

  Bier Laning, Carol M ^a,b   Durazo Arvizu, Ramon ^a   Muzaffar, Kamil ^a,b   Petruzzelli, Guy J ^c  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MICROMETASTASIS; NECK DISSECTION; NECK METASTASIS; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; ORAL TONGUE SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR THICKNESS; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE; TONGUE TUMOR;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 66349103950     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20141     Document Type: Article

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