Lymph node ratio as a predictor of outcome in patients with oropharyngeal cancer

European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Volumn 271, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1171-1180

  Künzel, Julian ^a   Psychogios, Georgios ^a   Mantsopoulos, Konstantinos ^a   Grundtner, Philipp ^a   Waldfahrer, Frank ^a   Iro, Heinrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lymph node ratio; Oropharyngeal carcinoma; Outcome; Risk stratification

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; DISEASE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE RATIO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; VERY ELDERLY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TUMOR INVASION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84898836043     PISSN: 09374477     EISSN: 14344726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00405-013-2513-1     Document Type: Article

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