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Selective lateral neck dissection for laryngeal cancer in the clinically negative neck: is it justified?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Alfio Ferlito  and
Alessandra Rinaldo
Alfio Ferlito*
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, University of Udine, Udine, Italy.
Alessandra Rinaldo
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
*
Address for correspondence: Alfio Ferlito, M.D., Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, University of Udine, Policlinico Cittá di Udine, Viale Venezia 410, 33100 Udine, Italy. Fax: +39 432 532179 e-mail: clorl@dsc. uniud.it
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Abstract

Selective lateral neck dissection is a recently-introduced surgical procedure for the treatment of cervical lymph nodes believed to be at risk of metastasis from primary malignant neoplasms of the upper respiratory and digestive tracts. Its value in the management of the clinically negative neck in cancer of the larynx is discussed.

Keywords

Laryngeal neoplasmsLymph nodesNeck, surgery

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Type
Review Article
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The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 112 , Issue 10 , October 1998 , pp. 921 - 924
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1998

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