Frequency of bilateral cervical metastases in oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma: A retrospective analysis of 352 cases after bilateral neck dissection

Head and Neck

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 239-243

  Olzowy, Bernhard ^a   Tsalemchuk, Yulia ^a   Schotten, Klaus Juergen ^a   Reichel, Oliver ^a   Harréus, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

bilateral; carcinoma; metastases; neck dissection; oropharynx

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NECK METASTASIS; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM STAGING; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 78751476199     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.21436     Document Type: Article

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