Long term results of sentinel lymph node biopsy in early oral squamous cell carcinoma

OncoTargets and Therapy

Volumn 6, Issue , 2013, Pages 799-802

  Dequanter, Didier ^a   Shahla, Mohammad ^a   Paulus, Pascal ^a   Lothaire, Philippe ^a  

^a Civil Hospital of Charleroi site Vésale   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Characteristics of patients; Head and neck cancer; Sentinel lymph node

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879827561     PISSN: 11786930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/OTT.S43446     Document Type: Article

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