Results of a prospective study of positron emission tomography-directed management of residual nodal abnormalities in node-positive head and neck cancer after definitive radiotherapy with or without systemic therapy

Head and Neck

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1675-1682

  Porceddu, Sandro V ^a,b   Pryor, David I ^a   Burmeister, Elizabeth ^a   Burmeister, Bryan H ^a,b   Poulsen, Michael G ^b,c   Foote, Matthew C ^a   Panizza, Benedict ^a,b   Coman, Scott ^a   McFarlane, David ^d   Coman, William ^a,b  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c MATER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

chemotherapy; head and neck; PET; radiotherapy; squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; CANCER OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY SITE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SYSTEMIC THERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CISPLATIN; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80052206660     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.21655     Document Type: Review

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