Eosinophils may predict occult lymph node metastasis in early oral cancer

Clinical Oral Investigations

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1523-1528

  Oliveira, D T ^a   Biassi, T P ^a   Faustino, S E S ^a   Carvalho, A L ^b   Landman, G ^c   Kowalski, L P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Cancer Hospital of Barretos   (Brazil)

^c A C CAMARGO CANCER CENTER   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Eosinophils; Metastasis; Oral cancer

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH TUMOR; NECK DISSECTION; PATHOLOGY; SECOND CANCER; SMOKING; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR INVASION; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EOSINOPHILIA; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SMOKING; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84869488089     PISSN: 14326981     EISSN: 14363771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00784-011-0651-7     Document Type: Article

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