Oral squamous cell carcinoma and a clinically negative neck: The value of follow-up

Head and Neck

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1400-1405

  Wensing, Bart M ^a   Merkx, Matthias A W ^a   Krabbe, Paul F M ^b   Marres, Henri A M ^a   Van Den Hoogen, Frank J A ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

clinically negative neck; follow up; neck dissection; oral cavity; squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METASTASIS; MOUTH CARCINOMA; NECK; ORAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT CANCER; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 80053000524     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.21642     Document Type: Article

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