Does the Negative Node Count Affect Disease-Free Survival in Early-Stage Oral Cavity Cancer?

Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 67, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2473-2475

  Ampil, Federico L ^a   Caldito, Gloria ^b   Ghali, Ghali E ^a   Baluna, Roxana G ^a  

^a Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 70349881453     PISSN: 02782391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joms.2009.04.126     Document Type: Article

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