Comparison of the AJCC N staging system in mucosal and cutaneous squamous head and neck cancer

Laryngoscope

Volumn 124, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1598-1602

  Brunner, Markus ^a,c   Ng, Beverly C ^a   Veness, Michael J ^b   Clark, Jonathan R ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

nodal; SCC; staging; TNM

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AJCC N STAGING SYSTEM; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN CARCINOMA; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

NODAL; SCC; STAGING; TNM;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH MUCOSA; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84902983055     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.24549     Document Type: Article

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