Clinical utility and prospective comparison of ultrasonography and computed tomography imaging in staging of neck metastases in head and neck squamous cell cancer in an Indian setup

International Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 686-693

  Ashraf, Mohammad ^a,b   Biswas, Jaydip ^a   Jha, Jayesh ^a   Nayak, Sandeep ^a   Singh, Vikas ^a   Majumdar, Suparna ^a   Bhowmick, Anup ^a   Dam, Aniruddha ^a  

^a CHITTARANJAN NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (India)

^b Krishna Sudha Apartments   (India)

Author keywords

Metastasis; Neck; Node; Sonography; Squamous

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOCAL METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; NECK METASTASIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGIONAL METASTASIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INDIA; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, SQUAMOUS CELL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84855192588     PISSN: 13419625     EISSN: 14377772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10147-011-0250-2     Document Type: Article

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