Is preoperative ultrasonography accurate in measuring tumor thickness and predicting the incidence of cervical metastasis in oral cancer?

Oral Oncology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 38-41

  Mark Taylor, S ^a   Drover, Chris ^a   MacEachern, Ron ^a   Bullock, Martin ^a   Hart, Robert ^a   Psooy, Brian ^a   Trites, Jonathan ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer; Metastasis; Oral; Tumor thickness; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CERVICAL METASTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; METASTASIS; MOUTH CANCER; NECK DISSECTION; NECK METASTASIS; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TONGUE CARCINOMA; TONGUE SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE CERVIX;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 72149086036     PISSN: 13688375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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