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The assessment of the accuracy of clinical preoperative lymph node.
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- A Novel Teaching-Learning Method of Utilizing Ultrasonography as a Tool to Enhance Clinical Examination Skills of House Surgeons in Evaluating Cervical Lymph Nodes.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2023Article
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Abstract
purposeThe aim of the present study is to assess the accuracy of clinical preoperative lymph node and to define the degree of relation between the clinical preoperative assessment and histopathological examination in patients with head and neck cancer and cN+.
methodsThis retrospective study was performed on 125 patients (85 males and 40 females) at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, between December 2012 and December 2014.
resultOf all the patients who underwent neck dissection, 37 were found with no neck metastasis. Positive or suspected lymph nodes were detected at computed tomography (CT) in 44 and detected at ultrasonogram diagnosis (USG) in 38 of 125 patients, and the necks were assessed as normal in 55 (44%) by both USG and CT.
conclusionFurther investigation is needed to evaluate the rates of overall survival and disease-free survival of these N0 patients with neck dissection.
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