Hayes Martin, MD, was born on June 24, 1892, in Dayton, Iowa. He graduated from The
University of Iowa School of Medicine in 1917 (Figure 1). He served in World War I as a flight …

Data on 1,048 neck dissections in 881 patients were studied to evaluate the effectiveness of
treatment in controlling cervical metastasis. Of the 881 patients, 74.5% were treated by …

Radical Neck Dissection Page 1 Head and Neck Surgery Radical Neck Dissection Stephan
Ariyan, MD Approximately 40,000 new epidermoid cancers of the head and are diagnosed …

With the exception of distant metastases, the presence of lymph node metastasis in the neck
is accepted as the single most important adverse independent prognostic factor and an …

The most important prognostic factor in the management of head and neck cancer is the
presence of cervical nodal metastasis. Once the tumor involves neck nodes, survival drops …

Neck dissection is a valuable method for treating clinical, subclinical, and subpathologic
metastasis from cancer of the head and neck. So much has been written and said on the …

Since the first description of the radical neck dissection by George Crile almost a century
ago, many variations and modifications of the procedure have been added. These in-clude …

One of the important considerations in the treatment of head and neck cancer is the status of
the cervical lymphatics, and management of the clinically negative (NO) neck is one of the …

Hopkins was born in 1918 in Leicester, England, the youngest son of a baker. He went to
school and university in Leicester. He graduated with emphases in mathematics and physics …

• The emergence of the multitude of modified techniques for neck dissection procedure has
resulted in a nomenclature system that is nonuniform. To eliminate potential …