[A proposition of uniform nomenclature of neck dissection (author's transl)]

There are difficulties in the interpretation of operative-surgical interventions (neck dissection), because the possibility to compare the basic disease is restricted and the operative-surgical procedures are described in a very different way. The neck dissection is carried out in different methods and that is why it must be arranged also in the treatment plan in a different way. Three important facts from the lots of information were used to get comparable informations: 1. The method of neck dissection (I-III), 2. the clinical palpation-statement of the lymphatic nodes of the neck (A, B) and 3. the histological statement of the lymphatic nodes of the neck (1-3). There will result a clear and also international comparable nomenclature of neck dissection. The problematic marking "prophylactic neck dissection" loses its purpose.