Isolated skip nodal metastasis is rare in T1 and T2 oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (United States)

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 275-277

  Balasubramanian, Deepak ^a   Thankappan, Krishnakumar ^a   Battoo, Azhar Jan ^a   Rajapurkar, Mayuri ^a   Kuriakose, Moni Abraham ^b   Iyer, Subramania ^a  

^a AMRITA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b Multispecialty Hospital Shaw Mazumdar Medical Centre   (India)

Author keywords

head and neck cancer; neck dissection; neck metastasis; skip metastasis; tongue cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NECK CANCER; NECK DISSECTION; NECK METASTASIS; PRIMARY TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SKIP METASTASIS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TONGUE CARCINOMA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TONGUE TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84867362757     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0194599812439664     Document Type: Review

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