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The conservation neck dissection
Author(s) -
Deutsch Elise C.,
Skolnik Emanuel M.,
Friedman Michael,
Hill James H.,
Sharer Kevin
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
the laryngoscope
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.181
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1531-4995
pISSN - 0023-852X
DOI - 10.1288/00005537-198505000-00008
Subject(s) - medicine , neck dissection , accessory nerve , surgery , otorhinolaryngology , dissection (medical) , internal jugular vein , head and neck , carcinoma
This study compares the neck tumor recurrence rate between patients treated with radical neck dissection and those treated with conservation neck dissection. A standard radical neck dissection modified by sparing at least the internal jugular vein or the spinal accessory nerve is defined as a conservation dissection. Six hundred ninety‐one neck dissections performed on 631 patients in the Department of Otolaryngology‐Head and Neck Surgery of the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago were reviewed retrospectively. All patients had been followed postoperatively for at least 24 months. Group I consisted of 422 radical neck dissections. Group II contained 269 conservation neck dissections. We found no statistically significant difference in the rate of neck recurrence between the group of patients who underwent radical neck dissection and the group who underwent conservation neck dissection.