Details of END in cN0 (pharyngo)laryngectomy patients

Details of END in cN0 (pharyngo)laryngectomy patients

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Background This study aims to report the rate of occult lymph node metastasis during elective neck dissection in clinically and radiologically negative neck (cN0) for patients offered total laryngectomy as either primary or salvage treatment. We also compare the rate of complications and recurrence after elective neck dissection during total laryng...

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... dissection outcome (Fig. 1) An END was performed on all of them at the time of the primary laryngectomy patients. Of the performed ENDs, 62 (94%) were bilateral and 4 (6%) unilateral. Twentythree patients had OLN metastasis (35%). OLN metastasis occurred in 7 patients with glottic cancer (30%), 10 patients with supraglottic cancer (44%), and 6 patients with ...