## Abstract ## Background. The clinically N0 neck in patients with oral SCC is commonly treated by neck dissection because the existence of metastases cannot be excluded. To determine whether unnecessary treatment could be avoided, we evaluated the feasibility of sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy.
Sentinel node biopsy in oral squamous cell carcinoma
β Scribed by Francisco Civantos; Robert Zitsch; Anthony Bared
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 108 KB
- Volume
- 96
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4790
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