Patterns of regional lymph node metastasis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma: A meta-analysis of clinical evidence

BMC Cancer

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ho, Francis C H ^a   Tham, Ivan W K ^a   Earnest, Arul ^b   Lee, Khai M ^a   Lu, Jiade J ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

^b DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Lymph nodes; Lymphatic metastasis; Meta analysis; Nasopharyngeal cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; LOW RISK POPULATION; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; META ANALYSIS; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROBABILITY; REGIONAL METASTASIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; METASTASIS; NASOPHARYNX TUMOR; NECK; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW;

HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NECK;

EID: 84862826612     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-12-98     Document Type: Article

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