Selective use of postoperative neck radiotherapy in oral cavity and oropharynx cancer: A prospective clinical study

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Martínez Carrillo, Miguel ^a   Tovar Martín, Isabel ^a   Martínez Lara, Ildefonso ^a   Ruiz de Almodóvar Rivera, José M ^b   Del Moral Ávila, Rosario ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LAS NIEVES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Lymph node; Oral cavity and oropharynx cancer; Postoperative radiotherapy; Selective neck irradiation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIMARY TUMOR; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NECK DISSECTION; ORAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT;

EID: 84877826002     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-8-103     Document Type: Article

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