## Abstract ## Background. The treatment of the neck in cancer of the upper aerodigestive tract is still a matter of controversy, even though nowadays there is a trend in the literature toward elective surgery in the N0 neck when the probability of occult lymph node metastasis is greater than 20%.
Histopathological predictors of occult lymph node metastases in supraglottic squamous cell carcinomas
โ Scribed by A. Ozdek; Sarp Sarac; M. Umut Akyol; O. Faruk Unal; Arzu Sungur
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 71 KB
- Volume
- 257
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0302-9530
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