Background. Elective treatment of the NO neck in patients with laryngeal cancer remains a controversial issue. We reviewed our experience with patients who had neck dissection for NO laryngeal carcinoma with occult metastases in order to compare elective lymphadenectomy results with those achieved w
Elective lateral neck dissection for laryngeal cancer in the clinically negative neck
β Scribed by Bin Zhang; Zhen-gang Xu; Ping-zhang Tang
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 80 KB
- Volume
- 93
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4790
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