Incidence and patterns of regional metastasis in early oral squamous cell cancers: Feasibility of submandibular gland preservation

Head and Neck

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1619-1623

  Razfar, Ali ^a   Walvekar, Rohan R ^a,b   Melkane, Antoine ^c   Johnson, Jonas T ^a   Myers, Eugene N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SAINT JOSEPH UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Early stage; Level I; Oral cancer; Regional metastasis; Submandibular gland

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL METASTASIS; SALIVARY GLAND TUMOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72449137662     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.21129     Document Type: Article

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