Lymph node ratio as an independent prognostic factor in oral squamous cell carcinoma

Head and Neck

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1245-1251

  Ebrahimi, Ardalan ^a   Clark, Jonathan R ^a   Zhang, Wan Jing ^a   Elliott, Michel S ^a   Gao, Kan ^a   Milross, Christopher G ^a   Shannon, Kerwin F ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

head and neck; lymph nodes; oral cancer; squamous cell carcinoma; survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUTH CARCINOMA; ORAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 80051771061     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.21600     Document Type: Article

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