Effects of upstaging from PET scan on survival in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Head and Neck

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1283-1287

  Misono, Stephanie ^a   Rue, Tessa ^b   Rajendran, Joseph ^b   Davis, Greg E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

head and neck cancer; PET scan; stage migration; staging; survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LIP CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MOUTH CARCINOMA; NOSE CAVITY CANCER; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SALIVARY GLAND CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78649455222     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.21333     Document Type: Article

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