Contralateral neck dissection in oral squamous cell carcinoma: when it shoud be done?

Contralateral neck dissection in oral squamous cell carcinoma: when it should be done?

Oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) has a high incidence of cervical micrometastases and sometimes metastasizes bilaterally because of the rich lymphatics in the submucosal plexus, which freely communicate across the midline. The presence of contralateral pathologic lymph nodes has been reported previously as a critical factor influencing the survival of patients. There are a few reports...

Neck dissection in squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx: indication of elective contralateral neck dissection.

UNLABELLED Unilateral or bilateral neck dissection must be considered in the treatment of laryngeal cancer AIM To evaluate the prevalence of contralateral metastases in larynx cancer and distribution of these metastases according to lymph node levels in the neck. METHOD Retrospective longitudinal study of 272 charts from patients with squamous cell cancer of the larynx treated between 1996 ...

Elective neck dissection in early oral squamous cell carcinoma: necessary?

Aim: The indication of neck dissection in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is a problem of risk-benefit evaluation between probability of neck metastases, the problem of complications associated with neck dissection and the prognostic influence of delayed diagnosis of metastasis during follow-up. There is no consensus on the elective treatment of the neck in early oral cancer patients with a...

Indication of elective contralateral neck dissection in squamous cell carcinoma of the hypopharynx Summary

Indication of elective contralateral neck dissection in squamous cell carcinoma of the hypopharynx.

UNLABELLED Lymph node metastases (LNM) are common in hypophariyngeal carcinomas; the neck dissection is an important therapeutic approach. AIM to analyze the incidence and distribution of LNM and failures in treating the contralateral neck. METHODS a retrospective study of 174 patients with hypopharyngeal cancer treated from 1978 to 2003. The distribution of LNM and regional recurrences wer...