title: [Lateral cervical metastases from unknown primary].
abstract: The authors report their experience about cervical metastasis of unknown primitive neoplasms. Epidemiology, histological type and topography are exposed. Primaries which are responsible, in a high incidence, of the preceding cervical localizations are described. Diagnostic iter, non-invasive/low-price clinical and instrumental procedures, advanced endoscopic and radiologic procedures are discussed. 64 patients were treated. Only in one case we could diagnose the primitive site of the neoplasm with non-invasive procedures. The other cases (63 patients) underwent the excision-biopsy of the cervical nodes. In 52 cases we have been able to define the primitive site of the neoplasm. 11 patients, in which the primary was unknown, underwent the radiotherapy of the cervical nodes and the eventual primitive "foci"; we had no survival, on the average, after six months for the diffuse dissemination of the neoplastic disease.
authors.affiliation: Istituto Clinica Chirurgica III, Università di Roma La Sapienza.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tartaglia
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marchesi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Biffoni
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bernardini
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Campana
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Picchi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Stocco
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lentini
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Nuccio
authors.forename: F P
authors.initials: FP
authors.lastname: Campana
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009382:Neoplasms, Unknown Primary
vernacular_title: Le metastasi laterocervicali precessive.