N1S3: A revised staging system for head and neck cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma with lymph node metastases - Results of 2 Australian cancer centers

Cancer

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1298-1304

  Forest, Veronique Isabelle ^a   Clark, Jonathan J ^a   Veness, Michael J ^b   Milross, Chris ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Extracapsular spread; Head and neck; Lymph node; Metastatic squamous cell carcinoma; Neck dissection; Staging system

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECK; NECK DISSECTION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PAROTID GLAND; PAROTIDECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PAROTID NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77149159107     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.24855     Document Type: Article

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