RT Book, Section
A1 Ellison, E. Christopher
A1 Zollinger, Robert M.
SR Print(0)
ID 1127274566
T1 RADICAL NECK DISSECTION
T2 Zollinger's Atlas of Surgical Operations, 10e
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-179755-9
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1127274566
RD 2021/03/05
AB There  are  two  major  indications  for  radical  neck  dissection.  The  first  is  for  the  removal  of  palpable  metastatic  cervical  lymph  nodes,  and  the  second  is  for  the  removal  of  presumed  occult  metastatic  disease  in  the  neck.  The  latter  indication  has  been  termed  “prophylactic  neck  dissection.”  “Elective  neck  dissection”  better  describes  this  operation,  since  it  is  not  intended  to  prevent  metastasis  but  to  remove  occult  metastatic  lymph  nodes.