[Metastatic neck adenopathies without known primary tumor. Incidence study 1996-2001].
We made a retrospective descriptive study reviewing 92 patients with cervical lymph node metastases from  unknown primary tumour. The study was accomplished during 6 years. (January 1996 to December 2001) in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology of the Hospital Reina Sofia, Córdoba. The median age was 61.7 years old, male 96.7% and heavy smoker (89.1%) and drinkers most of them. According to TNM categories, 72.2% patients were in phase N2a and half of them were localized Level II. Squamous cell carcinoma was the predominant histologic type. The patients were treated with surgery in 70.6% of the cases with or without radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy.
Muñoz del Castillo
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Servivio ORL, Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Cordoba. fmdelcastillo@cordoba.sytes.net
Jurado Ramos
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Navarro Ortíz
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López Villarejo
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009333:Neck; D009382:Neoplasms, Unknown Primary / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies