Diversity of treatment of T2N0 glottic cancer of the larynx: Lessons to learn from epidemiological cancer registry data

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 131, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1205-1213

  Pantel, Mira ^a   Wittekindt, Claus ^b   Altendorf Hofmann, Annelore ^a   Boeger, Daniel ^c   Buentzel, Jens ^d   Esser, Dirk ^e   Mueller, Andreas ^f   Wendt, Thomas G ^a   Guntinas Lichius, Orlando ^a  

^a JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c University Hospital ^*  (Germany)

^d Suedharz Krankenhaus Nordhausen   (Germany)

^e HELIOS KLINIKUM ERFURT   (Germany)

^f SRH Wald Klinikum Gera   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cervical lymph node metastasis; Elective neck dissection; Epidemiology; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LARYNX CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 80053639850     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00016489.2011.603136     Document Type: Article

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