Elective versus therapeutic neck dissection in node-negative oral cancer

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 373, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 521-529

  D'Cruz, Anil K ^a   Vaish, Richa ^a   Kapre, Neeti ^a   Dandekar, Mitali ^a   Gupta, Sudeep ^a   Hawaldar, Rohini ^a   Agarwal, Jai Prakash ^a   Pantvaidya, Gouri ^a   Chaukar, Devendra ^a   Deshmukh, Anuja ^a   Kane, Shubhada ^a   Arya, Supreeta ^a   Ghosh Laskar, Sarbani ^a   Chaturvedi, Pankaj ^a   Pai, Prathamesh ^a   Nair, Sudhir ^a   Nair, Deepa ^a   Badwe, Rajendra ^a  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ELECTIVE NECK DISSECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; NECK DISSECTION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THERAPEUTIC NECK DISSECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOPLASMS, SQUAMOUS CELL; SURVIVAL; WATCHFUL WAITING;

ADULT; AGED; ELECTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, SQUAMOUS CELL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WATCHFUL WAITING;

EID: 84938867586     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1506007     Document Type: Article

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