Sentinel lymph node biopsy for early stage clinical N0 squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 725-726

  Loree, Thom R ^a  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; EARLY CANCER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MOUTH CARCINOMA; NECK DISSECTION; PROGNOSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MOUTH TUMOR; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM STAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 6944224388     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/ASO.2004.05.922     Document Type: Editorial

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