Efficacy of neck dissection: Are surgical volumes important?

Laryngoscope

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1147-1152

  Morton, Randall P ^a,e   Gray, Lincoln ^b   Tandon, Dev A ^c   Izzard, Mark ^c   McIvor, Nicholas P ^d  

^a Division of Medicine Emergency and Integrated Care   (New Zealand)

^b JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AUCKLAND DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD   (New Zealand)

^d WAITEMATA DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD   (New Zealand)

^e Manukau Surgery Centre   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Lymph nodes; Neck dissection; Surgical expertise; Surgical volume; Volume sensitive procedure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NECK DISSECTION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGEON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICS; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 66849128948     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20167     Document Type: Article

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