Head and neck rhabdomyosarcoma lymph node staging is challenging due to varied patterns of lymphatic drainage and the suboptimal predictive value of available imaging modalities. Furthermore, regional relapse rates are unacceptably high, and the toxicity of empiric radiation is undesirable in the ...
Our goals was to evaluate how sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) benefit neck management in patients with parotid cancer. Patients diagnosed with cN0 parotid cancer by preoperative fine needle puncture were prospectively enrolled. The neck status was evaluated by SLNB. If node metastasis was proved ...
Sentinel Lymph NodeThyroid CarcinomaLateral Neck DissectionIntroduction: The surgical management of lateral lymph nodes in differentiated thyroid carcinoma is controversies. Therefore, we analyzed whether sentinel lymph nodes (SLN) biopsy of the first draining nodes in the jugulo-carotid chain is an ...
The purpose of this study is to evaluate prognosis and surgical management of head and neck melanoma (HNM) and the accuracy of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB). All patients with a primary cutaneous melanoma treated starting from 01/07/1994 to 31/12/2012 in the department of Plastic and ...
Due to the complex lymphatic drainage pattern SLNB has not yet been established as a standard of care in the modern management of MM of the head and neck region Therefore current German guidelines for melanoma patients recommend selective lymph node dissection as an alternative. Thirteen patients ...
F. Kovacs regarding the treatment of neck cancer. It further emphasizes that Kovacs' conclusion that sentinel lymph node biopsy (SNB) reflected the accuracy of the clinical and radiological staging methods, and the ideal diagnostic prerequisite for SNB is not yet found' is quite similar to ours,...
Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is an accurate staging procedure for malignant melanoma but its use in patients with melanoma of the head and neck has been questioned in the past because of a perceived record of poor safety and accuracy. Technical improvements have sought to redress this. Vit...
For individuals with impalpable nodes, however, treatment has been a subject of debate for many years. Routine elective inguinal lymph node dissection leads to overtreatment in the majority of patients because of the low incidence of occult lymph node metastases. On the other hand, a wait-and-...
R.B., YatesV., ViarJ.A., SosmanYates RB, Viar V, Sosman JA, Kelley MC. Parotid sentinel lymph node biopsy: A safe and effective staging procedure for melanoma of the head and neck. Presented at the Society for Melanoma Research, 2010....
Injury to accessory nerve in the posterior triangle of neck leads todisabling paralysis of the trapezius muscle. It is a well-known butfrequently forgotten complication of lymph node biopsy taken casuallyin minor operation theatre under local anesthesia. We describe such apatient with emphasis on pre...