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PET-CT Surveillance versus Neck Dissection in Advanced Head and Neck Cancer

2016; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 374; Issue: 15 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1056/nejmoa1514493

ISSN

1533-4406

Autores

Hisham Mehanna, Wai‐Lup Wong, Christopher C. McConkey, Joy K Rahman, Max Robinson, A. Hartley, Christopher M. Nutting, Ned Powell, Hoda Al‐Booz, Martin Robinson, Elizabeth Junor, Mohammed Rizwanullah, Sandra Ventorin von Zeidler, Hülya Wieshmann, Claire Hulme, Alison Smith, Peter Hall, Janet Dunn,

Tópico(s)

Management of metastatic bone disease

Resumo

The role of image-guided surveillance as compared with planned neck dissection in the treatment of patients with squamous-cell carcinoma of the head and neck who have advanced nodal disease (stage N2 or N3) and who have received chemoradiotherapy for primary treatment is a matter of debate.

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