… neck in patients who have no clinical evidence of lymph node metastasis—elective neck
dissection (… its application as a therapeutic neck dissection for clinically apparent nodal disease …

… Nobody can deny the important effect of therapeutic neck dissection in the prognosis of head
and neck cancer patients. However, the role of elective neck dissection has been a matter …

… The medical records of 428 previously untreated patients seen at MD Anderson Hospital
between January 1, 1970, and December 31, 1979, who underwent elective neck dissection …

… on survival of elective node dissection (ipsilateral neck dissection at the time of the primary
surgery) versus therapeutic node dissection (watchful waiting followed by neck dissection for …

… elective treatment of the neck are that a large proportion of patients are subjected to treatment
that they do not need and elective dissection of the neck … undergo elective neck dissection …

… Elective neck dissection has long been a subject of debate among surgeons. The proponents
of elective neck dissection … situations for which elective neck dissection is recommended. …

… neck dissections were supraomohyoidal or anterolateral). Another 21 therapeutic neck
dissections … study as these neck sides were clinically positive (Fig. 1). All patients underwent the …

… (observation) in oral cancer patients with clinical N0 neck. A … -analysis showed that elective
neck dissection reduced the … elective neck dissection in oral cancers with clinical N0 neck. …

… nerve in selected cases, elective neck dissection performed in association with … neck
dissection and limited neck dissection. The greatest impetus to the status of radical neck dissection …

… Granted that our knowledge about local or general factors influencing metastasization is
still very scanty, elective neck dissection in most head and neck cancers seems advisable. In …