Prophylactic neck dissection in early oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma 2.1 to 4.0 mm depth

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 542-548

  Lin, Matthew J ^a   Guiney, Anthony ^a   Iseli, Claire E ^a   Buchanan, Malcolm ^b   Iseli, Tim A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Neck dissection; Radiotherapy; Squamous cell carcinoma; Tongue

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; PROPHYLAXIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TONGUE CARCINOMA; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; TONGUE TUMOR; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855551664     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0194599810394988     Document Type: Article

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