Tumor budding and adjacent tissue at the invasive front correlate with delayed neck metastasis in clinical early-stage tongue squamous cell carcinoma.

Nobuhiro YamakawaTadaaki KiritaMasahiro UmedaSouichi YanamotoYoshihide OtaMitsunobu OtsuruMasaya OkuraHiroshi KuritaShin-Ichi YamadaTakumi HasegawaTomonao AikawaTakahide KomoriMichihiro Uedanull null

Published in: Journal of surgical oncology (2018)

In addition to conventional predictors, high grade tumor budding and adjacent tissue at the invasive front can serve as useful predictors of DNM in early tongue cancer.

Keyphrases

high grade
early stage
squamous cell carcinoma
papillary thyroid
low grade
radiation therapy
young adults
lymph node