… Neck dissection is the standard surgical treatment for resecting cancer in the regional
lymph nodes of the neck. The purpose of a neck dissection is to remove those lymph nodes …

… Multiple smaller studies have demonstrated an association between overall survival and
lymph node (LN) count from neck dissection in patients with head and neck cancer. This is a …

… clinical neck dissections for lymph node quantity. Methods: 1. Twenty radical neck dissection
specimens, harvested from 10 fresh human cadavers without evidence of head and neck …

… of ‘functional’ neck dissection, developed by … neck dissection as treatment for lymph node
disease in various stages. More recently, selective neck dissection, involving removal of nodes …

… no discrete lymph node count defining an adequate neck dissection. The … lymph node yield
(LNY) of an elective level I–III neck dissection required to reliably capture any positive nodes …

… the radical neck dissection; (3) to provide standard nomenclature for the lymph node groups
… of resection for lymph node groups; (5) to use terms for the neck dissection procedures that …

… of lymph node drainage patterns,5,6 the identification of fascial compartments separating the
lymphatic components of the neck … node is encountered at the lowest level of the dissection …

… patients had neck dissections with 26 or more lymph nodes harvested, whereas 15% had
less than 16 nodes. Thirteen percent of patients had pathologically negative neck dissections, …

… lymph nodes were dissected from the 96 neck dissection specimens. On average 43 lymph
nodes were found in neck dissection … neck dissections, whereas on average 15 lymph nodes …

… neck dissection consists of a comprehensive removal of the lymph node-bearing tissues of
one side of the neck (lymph … with the use of the supraomohyoid neck dissection, to discuss the …