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Illustration of the major neck lymph node levels, with anatomical boundaries, that are resected during neck dissections. This figure was published in Imaging Anatomy: Brain, Head and Neck, Spine. Diagnostic and Surgical Imaging Anatomy, Cervical Lymph nodes, 2006, Gordon H and Harsnberger HR, page 253, Copyright Amirsys/Elsevier (2006). Reproduced with permission.
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The dataset has been developed for the reporting of lymph node resections from patients with carcinomas and melanomas of the head and neck. This excludes nodal resections for lymphoma and sarcomas. It is not intended for use in reporting lymph node core biopsy or fine needle aspirations. Carcinomas covered by the dataset include squamous cell carci...
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... best known classification of lymph node groups in the neck is the so-called Robbins' classification, originally proposed by the American Academy of Otolaryngology -Head and Neck Surgery 3 in which the lymph node basins of the neck are divided into levels I to VI, as per the anatomical boundaries described further below and illustrated in Figure 1. This classification only includes lymph nodes commonly removed during neck dissection procedures, and therefore it does not include all the head and neck node groups such as the facial nodes. ...
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