Multifactorial malignancy analysis--modern knowledge in the practical diagnosis of head and neck tumors
Quade, R.
Laryngologie Rhinologie Otologie 63(9): 448-452
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0340-1588 PMID: 6492960 Document Number: 238289
A pretherapeutical multi-step-check method of the diagnosis of malignancy is suggested as a basis of an individual therapy of tumours. It must comprise clinical tumour diagnosis (staging)--the tumour localizations, size and spreading of metastases--histopathological and histochemical grading of malignancy, and histological classification. Results of these diagnostic methods of 186 squamous-cell carcinomas of the head and neck were related to the survival rate. Histochemical LDH and G6PDH reactions and histopathological grading (G 1-group and G 3-group) are important criteria for prognosis.