Advances in diagnostic modalities to detect occult lymph node metastases in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Head and Neck

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1829-1839

  De Bree, Remco ^a   Takes, Robert P ^b   Castelijns, Jonas A ^a   Medina, Jesus E ^c   Stoeckli, Sandro J ^d   Mancuso, Anthony A ^e   Hunt, Jennifer L ^f   Rodrigo, Juan P ^g,h   Triantafyllou, Asterios ⁱ   Teymoortash, Afshin ^j   Civantos, Francisco J ^k   Rinaldo, Alessandra ^l   Pitman, Karen T ^m   Hamoir, Marc ⁿ   Robbins, K Thomas ^o   Silver, Carl E ^p   Hoekstra, Otto S ^a   Ferlito, Alfio ^l  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^d CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^g HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

^h DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Spain)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^j PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^m Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center   (United States)

ⁿ CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

^o SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^p ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Author keywords

diagnostic techniques; head and neck; lymph node metastasis; occult; squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND GUIDED FINE NEEDLE BIOPSY; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; NECK DISSECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCULT CANCER; PATIENT SELECTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL METASTASIS; REVIEW; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; STANDARD; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; INTERVENTIONAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR INVASION;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84954325514     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.23814     Document Type: Review

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