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

• Published in: Cancers Vol. 11; no. 2; p. 269
• Main Authors: Shimura, Shunichi, Ogi, Kazuhiro, Miyazaki, Akihiro, Shimizu, Shota, Kaneko, Takeshi, Sonoda, Tomoko, Kobayashi, Junichi, Igarashi, Tomohiro, Miyakawa, Akira, Hasegawa, Tadashi, Hiratsuka, Hiroyoshi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 25.02.2019; MDPI
• Subjects: Dissection; Lymph nodes; Lymphatic system; Medical prognosis; Metastases; Metastasis; Multivariate analysis; Neck; Oral squamous cell carcinoma; Patients; Radiation therapy; Squamous cell carcinoma; Surgery; oral squamous cell carcinoma; pathologically positive nodes; selective neck dissection; metastatic nodal parameters; survival

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...