Tumor budding score predicts lymph node status in oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma and should be included in the pathology report

• Inger-Heidi Bjerkli,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Department of Medical Biology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5059-5124

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• Helene Laurvik,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Rikshospitalet, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

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• Elisabeth Sivy Nginamau,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway, Department of Clinical Medicine, Center for Cancer Biomarkers CCBIO and The Gade Laboratory of Pathology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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• Tine M. Søland,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Rikshospitalet, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Dentistry, Institute of Oral Biology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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• Daniela Costea,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway, Department of Clinical Medicine, Center for Cancer Biomarkers CCBIO and The Gade Laboratory of Pathology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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• Håkon Hov,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim, Norway, Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

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• Lars Uhlin-Hansen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Biology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Department of Pathology, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway

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• Elin Hadler-Olsen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Biology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, The Public Dental Health Service Competence Center of Northern Norway, Tromsø, Norway

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• Sonja E. Steigen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Sonja.eriksson.steigen@uit.no

  Affiliations Department of Medical Biology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Department of Pathology, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8376-2489

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