Management of the clinically negative cervical lymph nodes in patients with non-conventional squamous carcinoma of the larynx.
This paper discusses the indications for neck dissection in those patients with laryngeal tumours which prove to be, on pathologic examination, not conventional squamous carcinomas but rather fall into the category either of one of the uncommon histological subtypes of carcinoma, or another type of unusual histological variant of laryngeal malignancy, a mesenchymal tumour. It appears as though these unusual laryngeal malignancies may manifest both biological behaviours and propensities to metastasize to regional lymph nodes that differ from those of the more commonly encountered conventional squamous carcinomas of the larynx. This heterogeneous group of tumours accounts for about 10 per cent of all malignant tumours of the larynx.
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Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University of Udine, Italy. clorl@dsc.uniud.it
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D002277:Carcinoma / Q000601:surgery*; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007822:Laryngeal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D008637:Mesenchymoma / Q000601:surgery*; D037981:Neck Dissection; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D018579:Patient Selection