Sonographic examination of the neck after definitive radiotherapy for node-positive oropharyngeal cancer

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1532-1538

  Yom, S S ^b   Garden, Adam S ^a   Staerkel, G A ^a   Ginsberg, L E ^a   Morrison, W H ^a   Sturgis, E M ^a   Rosenthal, D I ^a   Myers, J N ^a   Edeiken Monroe, B S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CANCER REGRESSION; CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECURRENT CANCER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 80052884592     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A2545     Document Type: Article

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