Transcervical ultrasound identifies primary tumor site of unknown primary head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (United States)

Volumn 151, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1090-1092

  Mydlarz, Wojciech K ^a   Liu, Jia ^a   Blanco, Ray ^a,b   Fakhry, Carole ^a,b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

head and neck squamous cell carcinoma; human papillomavirus; oropharyngeal cancer; ultrasound; unknown primary

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOWEN DISEASE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY SITE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DISEASE DURATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNX; NECK TUMOR; SMOKING; TRANSCERVICAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CERVICAL SPINE; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; SCINTISCANNING; SECONDARY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR INVASION;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LARYNGOSCOPY; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84914161625     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0194599814549181     Document Type: Article

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