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Incidence of 'unsuspected' extranodal head and neck lymphoma
R P Morton1, H A Sillars, C S Benjamin
1Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Green Lane Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.
Clinical Otolaryngology and Allied Sciences
|October 1, 1992
Abstract:
A series of 100 consecutive patients presenting with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in the head and neck region was reviewed. An examination of the contribution made to the staging classification by an otolaryngological examination showed that one-third of patients presenting with cervical nodes had unsuspected extranodal disease in Waldeyer's ring. Overall 14% of patients undergoing an otolaryngological examination had their disease upstaged because of that examination.