title: Guidelines update: Post-treatment follow-up of adult head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: Screening for metastasis and metachronous esophageal and bronchial locations.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The present article is an update of the guideline of the French Society of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery (SFORL) on the post-treatment follow-up of adult head and neck squamous cell carcinoma concerning screening for metastasis and metachronous esophageal and bronchial locations.
  
  
  METHODS
  A multidisciplinary work-group was entrusted with a review of the literature on the above topic. Guidelines were drawn up, based on the articles retrieved and the work-group members' own experience. These were then reviewed by an editorial group independent of the work-group. A coordination meeting then finalized the guidelines. Guidelines were graded A, B, C or "expert opinion" according to decreasing level of evidence.
authors: Service d'ORL, Centre François-Baclesse, Centre de Lutte Contre le Cancer Basse-Normandie, 3, avenue Général-Harris, BP 5026, 14076 Caen, France. Electronic address: d.blanchard@baclesse.fr.
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Blanchard
authors: Service d'ORL, Hôpital Bichat, 46, rue Henri-Huchard, 75018 Paris, France.
authors: B
authors: B
authors: Barry
authors: Service d'ORL, Centre François-Baclesse, Centre de Lutte Contre le Cancer Basse-Normandie, 3, avenue Général-Harris, BP 5026, 14076 Caen, France.
authors: D
authors: D
authors: De Raucourt
authors: Service d'ORL, CHU de Rouen, 76031 Rouen cedex 1, France.
authors: O
authors: O
authors: Choussy
authors: Service d'oncologie, Hôpital Georges-Pompidou, 20, rue Leblanc, 75015 Paris, France.
authors: B
authors: B
authors: Dessard-Diana
authors: Service d'ORL, Hôpital Georges-Pompidou, 20, rue Leblanc, 75015 Paris, France.
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Hans
authors: Service d'ORL, Centre hospitalier de Périgueux, 80, avenue Georges-Pompidou, 24000 Périgueux, France.
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Lafarge
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D018288:Carcinoma, Small Cell / Q000175:diagnosis; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000473:pathology*; D003663:Decision Trees; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000175:diagnosis*
keywords: Follow-up; Head and neck cancer; Metachronous cancer; Metastasis