Prognostic biological features in neck dissection specimens

European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Volumn 270, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1581-1592

  Woolgar, Julia A ^a   Triantafyllou, Asterios ^a   Lewis Jr , James S ^b   Hunt, Jennifer ^c   Williams, Michelle D ^d   Takes, Robert P ^e   Thompson, Lester D R ^f   Slootweg, Pieter J ^e   Devaney, Kenneth O ^g   Ferlito, Alfio ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f WOODLAND HILLS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g Allegiance Health ^*  (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Histopathology; Metastasis; Molecular analysis; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ACINAR CELL CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METASTASIS; NECK DISSECTION; PERCEPTION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NECK DISSECTION; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84877134206     PISSN: 09374477     EISSN: 14344726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00405-012-2170-9     Document Type: Article

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