Assessment of the new nodal classification for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma and its effect on patient stratification

Head and Neck

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 336-339

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

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma; Head and neck; TNM

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CARCINOMA; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL; TUMOR INVASION;

AGED; AUSTRALIA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84923102447     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.23602     Document Type: Article

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