When to address level I lymph nodes in neck dissections?

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 355-358

  Ozer, Enver ^a   Karapinar, Ugur ^b   Ryoo, Cherie ^a   Agrawal, Amit ^a   Schuller, David E ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Denizli Government Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY SITE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; LARYNX; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOUTH CARCINOMA; NECK DISSECTION; OROPHARYNX; PRIMARY TUMOR; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND;

HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS;

EID: 77049099645     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2009.11.033     Document Type: Article

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