Biosystems and Environmental Engineering Research Group, Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zimbabwe, P.O. Box MP167, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe. Electronic address: wgwenzi@agric.uz.ac.zw.
The cold scalpel/scissors (CS) and the monopolar electrocautery (ME) are still the most commonly used instruments for neck dissection in head and neck oncology. However, a direct comparison of these t...
A standard lateral neck dissection should yield at least 18 lymph nodes. The goal of the present study was to examine what factors might influence the number of lymph nodes retrieved during a neck dis...
This was a retrospective cohort study in a tertiary academic referral centre for head and neck oncology. Two hundred and nineteen consecutive neck dissections were examined. Age of the patient and pri...
The mean age was 62.2 ± 13.0 years. The most common primary site was the oral cavity (38.8 per cent). The mean number of lymph nodes was 30.63 ± 13.9. In total, 17.8 per cent had undergone previous ra...
Lymph node yield from a neck dissection is likely multi-factorial in nature. Previous radiotherapy, the only significant contributor, led to a mean reduction of lymph node yield from 33.3 to 18.5....
The significance of postoperative radiotherapy (PORT) to the neck for pN1 status head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC) after neck dissection is unclear. A total of 208 patients with pN1 statu...
To investigate the survival benefit of elective neck dissection (END) over neck observation in cT1-4 N0M0 head and neck verrucous carcinoma (HNVC)....
Retrospective cohort study....
The 2006 to 2017 National Cancer Database....
Patients with surgically resected cT1-4 N0M0 HNVC were selected. Linear, binary logistic, Kaplan-Meier, and Cox proportional hazards regression models were utilized....
Of 1015 patients satisfying inclusion criteria, 223 (22.0%) underwent END. The majority of patients were male (55.4%) and white (91.0%) with disease of the oral cavity (67.6%) classified as low grade ...
END does not confer an appreciable survival benefit in HNVC, even after stratifying univariate and multivariate analyses by several patient, facility, tumor, and treatment characteristics....
Level 4....
The attenuation of retaining ligaments with aging leads to downward displacement of facial fat compartments and is responsible for many of the stigmata that occur with aging. The zygomatic cutaneous a...
Microvascular free flaps are frequently used for head and neck reconstruction after prior neck dissection (ND) and neck irradiation (RTX). The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of ND ...
To study the safety and efficacy of Artiss fibrin sealant in lateral neck dissection, focusing on drain retention time, length of hospital stay and post-operative complications....
A retrospective review was conducted of patients who underwent neck dissection in a UK hospital over a 12-month period....
Twenty-three patients were identified; 13 patients had Artiss and a drain, 10 patients had Artiss only. All drains were removed by post-operative day 2. No post-operative fluid collections or complica...
The use of Artiss reduced the drain retention time and hospital stay, with no post-operative complications. Neck dissection can be safely undertaken with no drain, and can potentially be carried out a...
Metachronous lateral neck recurrence after thyroidectomy for N1b papillary thyroid cancer is accompanied by high morbidity and increased difficulty of reoperation. From the perspective of recurrence, ...
This retrospective study involved 1,760 patients who underwent lateral neck dissection for papillary thyroid cancer at the Gangnam Severance Hospital, a tertiary medical center in Korea, from June 200...
A total of 1,613 patients underwent thyroidectomy and sLND at diagnosis. In 147 patients, thyroidectomy alone was performed at the time of diagnosis, and mLND was performed when recurrence to the late...
mLND is suitable for treating lateral neck recurrence in patients with N1b papillary thyroid cancer who previously underwent thyroidectomy. Lateral neck recurrence after treatment in patients who unde...
Selective neck dissection (SND) is the surgical treatment of choice in squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (HNSCC) with suspected or manifest metastases in the cervical lymph nodes. For SND t...
We conducted a retrospective review of SND as part of primary treatment of HNSCC. Overall survival (OS) and regional control rates (RCR) were calculated for all patients treated at one academic tertia...
661 patients with HNSCC were included, 644 underwent ipsilateral and 319 contralateral SND. Average follow-up was 78.9 ± 106.4 months. 67 (10.1%) patients eventually developed nodal recurrence. Tumor ...
The dissection of ipsilateral level I in oral cavity cancer was of particular relevance in our exploratory, retrospective analysis. To clarify the relevance for the determination of the extent of SND,...
Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is diagnosed definitively by biopsy, and treatment is based on stage. Owing to the nature of the disease, post-treatment efficacy is determined mainly by fluorodeoxyglucose-posit...
The patient was a 74-year-old man who was referred to our hospital for cancer on the right side of his tongue. He had previously undergone chemotherapy for HL involving the right side of his neck and ...
This was a rare case in which complete remission of HL was confirmed by histopathological analysis. The absence of lymph node structure and lymphatic flow led to contralateral neck lymph node metastas...
