Open AccessElective versus Therapeutic Neck Dissection in Node-Negative Oral Cancer
Author(s) -
Anil D’Cruz,
Richa Vaish,
Neeti Madan Kapre,
Mitali Dandekar,
Sudeep Gupta,
Rohini Hawaldar,
Jai Prakash Agarwal,
Gouri Pantvaidya,
Devendra Chaukar,
Anuja Deshmukh,
Shubhada Kane,
Supreeta Arya,
Sarbani Ghosh Laskar,
Pankaj Chaturvedi,
Prathamesh Pai,
Sudhir Nair,
Deepa Nair,
Rajendra Badwe
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa1506007
Subject(s) - medicine , neck dissection , dissection (medical) , surgery , cancer , stage (stratigraphy) , general surgery , paleontology , biology
Whether patients with early-stage oral cancers should be treated with elective neck dissection at the time of the primary surgery or with therapeutic neck dissection after nodal relapse has been a matter of debate.
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