Quantitative Analysis of Extracapsular Extension of Metastatic Lymph Nodes and its Significance in Radiotherapy Planning in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1127-1132

  Ghadjar, Pirus ^a   Schreiber Facklam, Heide ^b   Gräter, Ruth ^a   Evers, Christina ^a   Simcock, Mathew ^c   Geretschläger, Andreas ^a   Blumstein, Norbert M ^a   Zbären, Peter ^a   Zimmer, Yitzhak ^b   Wilkens, Ludwig ^b   Aebersold, Daniel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS GROUP FOR CLINICAL CANCER RESEARCH SAKK   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Clinical target volume; Extracapsular extension; Head and neck cancer; Lymph node metastasis; Radiotherapy planning

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GROSS TUMOR VOLUME; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; HEAD-AND-NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METASTATIC LYMPH NODES; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING;

BODY FLUIDS; PATHOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; TARGETS;

TUMORS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION FIELD; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NECK DISSECTION; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 77449158932     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.03.065     Document Type: Article

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