… The existence of nodal metastases is considered the most important clinic and … with
squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck (SCCHN) in the absence of distant metastases [1]. …

… In a different study, patients with oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma were prospectively
evaluated for the prevalence of histopathological metastasis to level V nodes in cN0, cN1, and …

… squamous cell carcinoma(OPSCC). This study was planned to determine whether Selective
Neck Dissection (… oncological safe procedure even in patients with lymph node metastases. …

… and optional adjuvant radiotherapy—and, in selective cases, chemoradiotherapy—… cervical
metastases is greater than 15% to 20%. Our finding of a 20% rate of occult neck metastases …

… treatment of oral cancers is selective neck dissection, which includes the lymph node groups
at the highest risk for metastasis (… 498 patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma of the oral …

… which have a lower incidence of cervical nodal metastasis at diagnosis, oral squamous cell
… SCC; squamous cell carcinoma; cervical neck dissection; T1/T2 oral cancers; N0 neck and …

… neck dissection to observation in the treatment of … of neck dissection, both the probability
of occult metastasis and the morbidity of the procedure need to be weighed. Occult metastases …

… Selective cutoffs for depth of invasion (DOI) have been … to neck dissection and delayed
neck metastasis for patients with and without END. Tumor grade also predicts neck metastasis. …

… level IIb lymph node metastasis in cN0 oral squamous cell carcinoma (… selective neck
dissection reduces the likelihood of shoulder injury without compromising the efficacy of treatment …

… In the current study, the occult lymph node metastasis rate was 8%, a finding that was
consistent with previous reports [8, 9, 19]. Moreover, we found that END did not carry a survival …