Prospective study on neck dissection after primary chemoradiation therapy in stage IV pharyngeal cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2645-2653

  Bremke, Martin ^a   Barth, P J ^b   Sesterhenn, A M ^a   Budach, V ^c   Engenhart Cabillic, R ^b   Werner, J A ^a  

^a UKGM ^*  (Germany)

^b UKGM   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

HART; Head and neck cancer; Lymph node status; Pharyngeal cancer; Planned neck dissection; Primary radio chemotherapy

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NECK DISSECTION; OROPHARYNX CANCER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCAR FORMATION; TUMOR CELL; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 69249167998     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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