Impact of extensive neck dissection on survival from papillary thyroid cancer

ORL

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 330-335

  Kandil, Emad ^a   Friedlander, Paul ^a   Noureldine, Salem ^a   Islam, Tareq ^a   Tufano, Ralph P ^b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical neck dissection; Papillary thyroid cancer; Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results database; Thyroid cancer mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANT METASTASIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY;

CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SEER PROGRAM; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053911675     PISSN: 03011569     EISSN: 14230275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000330047     Document Type: Article

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