Outcome of patients with early stage oral cancer managed by an observation strategy towards the N0 neck using ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration cytology: No survival difference as compared to elective neck dissection

Oral Oncology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 157-164

  Flach, Géke B ^a   Tenhagen, Mark ^a   De Bree, Remco ^a   Brakenhoff, Ruud H ^a   Van Der Waal, Isaac ^a,b   Bloemena, Elisabeth ^a,b   Kuik, Dirk J ^a   Castelijns, Jonas A ^a   Rene Leemans C ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Lymph node metastases; Neck dissection; Observation; Oral cancer; Squamous cell carcinoma; Survival; Ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration cytology; Wait and scan

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; EARLY CANCER; ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND GUIDED FINE NEEDLE BIOPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; NECK DISSECTION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; OBSERVATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84872345655     PISSN: 13688375     EISSN: 18790593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2012.08.006     Document Type: Article

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