Open AccessIs it worthy? Removal of level IIB nodes during selective neck dissection (I-III) for oral carcinomas
Author(s) -
Anirudh Bhattacharya,
Dwarkadas Adwani,
Nitin Adwani,
Vijay Kumar Sharma
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
annals of maxillofacial surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 6
ISSN - 2231-0746
DOI - 10.4103/2231-0746.161052
Subject(s) - medicine , neck dissection , statistical significance , malignancy , biopsy , lymph , metastasis , carcinoma , surgery , radiology , pathology , cancer
The aim was to correlate the incidence of metastasis to Level IIB of neck lymph nodes (LNs) for oral cavity carcinomas with the site, size, and histological grade of tumor.