Is an Elective Neck Dissection Necessary for All Cases of N0 Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma? -Elective Neck Dissection may be Performed for Tongue Cancer with Tumor Thickness More than 4 mm.

Autor: Otsuru M; Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tokai University School of Medicine, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara, Kanagawa 259-1193, Japan. ootsuru@is.icc.u-tokai.ac.jp., Aoki T, Ota Y, Denda Y, Akiba T, Sekine R, Yoshida Y, Osaka R
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Tokai journal of experimental and clinical medicine [Tokai J Exp Clin Med] 2016 Sep 20; Vol. 41 (3), pp. 112-7. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Sep 20.
Abstrakt: We investigated whether neck dissection should be performed to prevent T1-2N0M0 tongue cancer by using the Weiss and colleague's decision tree method. The results showed that preventive neck dissection should not be recommended for T1-2N0M0 tongue cancer. However, preventive neck dissection is a suitable approach when treating tongue cancer tumors with a thickness of ≥ 4 mm.
Databáze: MEDLINE