Neck Management in Skin Cancer
16 Neck Management in Skin Cancer William Harris, Mauricio A. Moreno, and Brian Moore Abstract This chapter examines the risk factors and clinical approach to regional management of aggressive skin…
Robotic Neck Dissection: The Retroauricular Approach
22 Robotic Neck Dissection: The Retroauricular Approach Estelle Eun Hae Chang, Yoon Woo Koh, and Kang Dae Lee Abstract Neck dissections are performed when cancer metastasis to cervical lymph nodes…
Selective Neck Dissection
8 Selective Neck Dissection Marcelo F. Figari Abstract In this chapter, we analyze the path followed since the beginning of the 20th century, when Crile conceived radical dissection to tackle…
Management of the Neck with Radiation Therapy
25 Management of the Neck with Radiation Therapy Catherine E. Mercado and William M. Mendenhall Abstract Patients with a clinically negative neck undergo elective neck treatment if the risk of…
Histopathologic Evaluation of Neck Dissections
27 Histopathologic Evaluation of Neck Dissections Chien Chen Abstract The purpose of histopathologic evaluation of neck dissections is to identify metastatic disease to locoregional lymph nodes. The standard protocol for…
History/Classification of Nodal Levels and Neck Dissections
2 History/Classification of Nodal Levels and Neck Dissections Angela M. Osmolak and Jesus E. Medina Abstract The management of the cervical lymph nodes in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of…
Radioguided Neck Dissection
23 Radioguided Neck Dissection Quinn A. Dunlap and Brendan C. Stack, Jr. Abstract Long-term survival for differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) is greater than 90% with appropriate medical and surgical therapy…
Neck Dissection for Salivary Gland Malignancies
18 Neck Dissection for Salivary Gland Malignancies Vincent Vander Poorten Abstract A minority of patients with salivary gland carcinomas presents with clinically or radiologically obvious cervical lymph node metastasis. These…
Sentinel Node Dissection
21 Sentinel Node Dissection Francisco Civantos and Samuel J. Trosman Abstract The technology and indications for sentinel node dissection have continued to expand over the last several years. It is…
Intraoperative Neural Monitoring in Neck Dissection
24 Intraoperative Neural Monitoring in Neck Dissection Bradley R. Lawson, Dipti Kamani, and Gregory W. Randolph Abstract Intraoperative nerve visualization is the accepted gold standard for prevention of neural injury…
