A new paradigm for the diagnosis and management of unknown primary tumors of the head and neck: A role for transoral robotic surgery

Laryngoscope

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 146-151

  Mehta, Vikas ^a   Johnson, Paul ^a   Tassler, Andrew ^a   Kim, Seungwon ^a   Ferris, Robert L ^a   Nance, Melonie ^a,b   Johnson, Jonas T ^a   Duvvuri, Umamaheswar ^a,b  

^a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

base of tongue; diagnostic; Level of Evidence: 4; transoral robotic surgery; Unknown primary

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY SITE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GLOSSECTOMY; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TONSILLECTOMY; TRANSORAL ROBOTIC SURGERY; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TONGUE;

EID: 84871712621     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.23562     Document Type: Article

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