## Abstract ## BACKGROUND The survival of patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) remains unaffected despite recent therapeutic advances. To reverse this trend, reliable and clinically applicable markers of tumor aggressiveness must be identified. One such marker may be the tum
The prognostic impact of metastatic pattern of lymph nodes in patients with oral and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas
β Scribed by S. Wenzel; C. Sagowski; W. Kehrl; F.U. Metternich
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 196 KB
- Volume
- 261
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0302-9530
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