The Importance of Metastatic Cervical Lymph Nodes on the Prognosis and Therapy of Malignant Neoplasias of the Head and Neck

Abstract

The author in a study of 667 patients submitted to unilateral or bilateral radical neck dissection presents a critical analysis of clinical palpatory and histopathological methods in the evaluation of the metastatical lymph nodes in head and neck cancer. The advantages of the last one are pointed out showing the real prognostic value of the histopathological metastases.