Metastatic head and neck cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma: Defining a low-risk patient

Head and Neck

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 365-370

  Ebrahimi, Ardalan ^a   Clark, Jonathan R ^a   Lorincz, Balazs B ^a   Milross, Christopher G ^a   Veness, Michael J ^b  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma; head and neck; lymph nodes; metastases; radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HEAD AND NECK CUTANEOUS SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PAROTID GLAND; PAROTIDECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856625997     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.21743     Document Type: Article

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