Lymph node density is a significant predictor of outcome in patients with oral cancer

Cancer

Volumn 115, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 5700-5710

  Gil, Ziv ^a   Carlson, Diane L ^a   Boyle, Jay O ^a   Kraus, Dennis H ^a   Shah, Jatin P ^a   Shaha, Ashok R ^a   Singh, Bhuvanesh ^a   Wong, Richard J ^a   Patel, Snehal G ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck; Neck dissection; Squamous cell carcinoma; Survival; Tongue

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CARCINOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RELIABILITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM STAGING; RECURRENCE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 73149120512     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.24631     Document Type: Article

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