Selective Neck Dissection and Survival in Pathologically Node-Positive Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Selective Neck Dissection and Survival in Pathologically Node-Positive Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma

The most important prognostic factor in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is neck metastasis, which is treated by neck dissection. Although selective neck dissection (SND) is a useful tool for clinically node-negative OSCC, its efficacy for neck node-positive OSCC has not been established. Sixty-e...

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Main Authors: Shunichi Shimura, Kazuhiro Ogi, Akihiro Miyazaki, Shota Shimizu, Takeshi Kaneko, Tomoko Sonoda, Junichi Kobayashi, Tomohiro Igarashi, Akira Miyakawa, Tadashi Hasegawa, Hiroyoshi Hiratsuka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-02-01
Series:Cancers
Subjects:
oral squamous cell carcinoma
selective neck dissection
survival
metastatic nodal parameters
pathologically positive nodes
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/11/2/269

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