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Selective lateral neck dissection for laryngeal cancer in the clinically negative neck: is it justified?
1Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Udine, Italy. clorl@dsc.uniud.it
The Journal of Laryngology and Otology
|April 22, 1999
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.