## Background: The benefits of ct scanning of the chest and abdomen as a routine screening method for patients with newly diagnosed head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (hnscc) remain unclear. ## Methods: Consecutive patients with a primary hnscc (t classification, t2-t4) and or regionally metas
CT staging and surveillance of the thorax in patients with newly diagnosed and recurrent squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: is it necessary?
✍ Scribed by Fergal Glynn; Sinead Brennan; Gerard O’Leary
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 180 KB
- Volume
- 263
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0302-9530
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