Radiological imaging of the neck for initial decision-making in oral squamous cell carcinomas-A questionnaire survey in the Nordic countries

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 355-361

  Norling, Rikke ^a   Grau, Cai ^b   Nielsen, Michael B ^a   Homøe, Preben ^a   Sørensen, Jens A ^c   Lambertsen, Karin ^d   Bundgaard, Troels ^b   Mäkitie, Antti ^e   Grénman, Reidar ^f   Larenne, Jussi ^g   Koivunen, Petri ^h   Virtaniemi, Jukka ⁱ   Gudjonsson, Arnar ^j   Jetlund, Olav ^k   Abendstein, Helmut ^l   Rikardsen, Oddveig ^m   Lybak, Stein ⁿ   Wennerberg, Johan ^o   Högmo, Anders ^p   Laurell, Göran ^q,r   Westerborn, Anders ^s   Hammerlid, Eva ^t   Tytor, Wieslaw ^u   Cederblad, Lena ^v   Von Buchwald, Christian ^a   more..

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^e HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^f TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^g TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^h OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

ⁱ KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^j REYKJAVIK UNIVERSITY   (Iceland)

^k OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^l TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^m UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

ⁿ HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^o LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^p KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^q UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^r UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^s ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^t SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^u LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^v UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENMARK; FINLAND; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ICELAND; MOUTH CARCINOMA; NORWAY; ORAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SWEDEN;

DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NECK; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, SQUAMOUS CELL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84859736988     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0284186X.2011.640346     Document Type: Article

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