PET-CT staging of the neck in cancers of the oropharynx: patterns of regional and retropharyngeal nodal metastasis

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Tauzin, Marcie ^a   Rabalais, Amy ^a   Hagan, Joseph L ^b   Wood, Charles G ^c   Ferris, Robert L ^d   Walvekar, Rohan R ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OROPHARYNX CANCER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROPHARYNGEAL LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; LYMPH NODE; MIDDLE AGED; OROPHARYNX TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; SURVIVAL RATE;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77955545625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-8-70     Document Type: Article

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