Selective neck dissection in the management of the neck after (chemo)radiotherapy for advanced head and neck cancer. Proposal for a classification update

Head and Neck

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 816-819

  Hamoir, Marc ^a   Leemans, C René ^b   Dolivet, Gilles ^c   Schmitz, Sandra ^a   Grégoire, Vincent ^a   Andry, Guy ^d  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Alexis Vautrin Cancer Center   (France)

^d JULES BORDET INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Lymph nodes; Neck dissection; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY NERVE; ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLASSIFICATION; EXTENDED SELECTIVE NECK DISSECTION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MUSCLE RESECTION; NECK DISSECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELECTIVE NECK DISSECTION; SPINAL ACCESSORY ROOT; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 77952763156     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.21386     Document Type: Review

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