Sentinel node navigation surgery versus observation as a management strategy for early tongue carcinoma

Head and Neck

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 568-572

  Yamauchi, Kohichi ^a   Fujioka, Yasunori ^a   Kohno, Naoyuki ^a  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

neck dissection; regional recurrence; sentinel lymph node; sentinel node navigation surgery; watchful waiting policy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TONGUE CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOSSECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MALE; METASTASECTOMY; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WATCHFUL WAITING;

EID: 84858076634     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.21776     Document Type: Article

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