Predictive factors for regional metastases in oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma

• Principais autores: Anastasios Kanatas (Autor), Amy Marschall (Autor), Craig D. S. T. Needs (Autor), Thomas Mucke (Autor), James McCaul (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: Frontiers Media S.A., 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Assuntos: article
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The process of deciding to treat or not to treat the clinically N0 neck in early oral tongue carcinoma whether surgically or with radiotherapy remains difficult and open to discussion. This is due to the minority of patients who will have occult nodal metastases and the reduced outcome for those pat...