Extracapsular extension is a poor predictor of disease recurrence in surgically treated oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma

Modern Pathology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1413-1420

  Lewis Jr , James S ^a   Carpenter, Danielle H ^a   Thorstad, Wade L ^a   Zhang, Qin ^a   Haughey, Bruce H ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

extracapsular extension; metastasis; oropharyngeal; p16; squamous cell carcinoma; survival

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P16;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; EXTRACAPSULAR EXTENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; OROPHARYNX SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SOFT TISSUE METASTASIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P16; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MISSOURI; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 80455174017     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2011.105     Document Type: Article

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