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3422238

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-3-18
pubmed:abstractText
The factors relating to lymph node metastasis occurring in association with carcinoma of the tongue have been investigated clinically and histopathologically by many authors. Nevertheless, accuracy in predicting lymph node metastasis has not yet been attained. The present study describes the results of analysis performed in an attempt to predict lymph node metastasis of carcinoma of the tongue. Ninety-eight patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue who were treated at our institution were investigated. Among the 98 patients, lymph node metastases were histologically proven after neck dissection in 40 patients. For statistical analysis in the present study, the quantification theory Type II of Hayashi (1954) was employed for discriminatory analysis. According to this discriminatory analysis, the correlations between the clinical (age, tumour size, N-category) and histopathological (degree of keratinization, mitoses, structure, mode of invasion) findings and metastasis were assessed on the basis of the partial correlation coefficients; these coefficients for each finding were not greatly different from each other and 74 out of 98 patients (76%) could be differentiated between patients with metastasis and without metastasis accurately. The prediction of lymph node metastasis by such discriminatory analysis had significant validity.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
D
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
1010-5182
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
16
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
31-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
Cervical lymph node metastasis in carcinoma of the tongue. Correlation between clinical and histopathological findings and metastasis.
pubmed:affiliation
First Department of Oral Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article