Neck dissection is one the most commonly performed operations in head and neck surgery.
Better understanding of the structure and patterns of lymphatic flow in the neck has …

Even if clinical tumour, node, metastasis classification will probably retain its significance, it
is now becoming possible, by molecular markers, to acquire biological information about …

Objective: The impact of ablative oral cancer surgery was studied, with particular reference
to recurrence andnodal metastasis, to assess survival probability and prognostic indicators …

Surgery continues to play a prominent role in the management of patients with loco-
regionally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the upper aerodigestive tract. Most …

Background The management of initially bulky nodal disease after primary nonsurgical
treatment for stage IV head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) continues to be a …

Purpose: To report the outcomes of patients with favorable risk oropharyngeal cancer that
underwent adjuvant radiation therapy with omission of the primary site from the clinical …

Background Selective neck dissection, or the selective removal of nodal groups at risk for
harboring cervical metastases, is an extension of the concept of the functional neck …

BACKGROUND–INTRODUCTION TO MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Cancer is a genetic disease.
Molecular biology permits the analysis of genes and their function and offers the chance to …

INTRODUCTION Treatment of advanced neck disease (N2c/N3) in head and neck
squamous cell carcinoma is contentious. The aim of this study was to review the survival …

Background In cervical postoperative radiotherapy, the target volume is usually the same as
the extension of the previous dissection. We evaluated a protocol of selective irradiation …