Prognostic Value of Histologic Findings in Neck Dissections for Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Cisplatin based induction chemotherapy modified by ERCC1 improved the outcome of young adults with locally advanced oral squamous cell carcinoma

“…This is also supported by our results. Pinsolle et al reported a strong relationship between clinical N classification and ECS, and ECS was present in 35% of clinical N1 patients, 55% of clinical N2 patients and 74% of clinical N3 patients, respectively 26. However, the association between clinical N classification and ECS is not confirmed in our study.…”

Predictive value of computed tomography in identifying extracapsular spread of cervical lymph node metastases in p16 positive oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma

“…reported increased rates of ECS in nodes greater than 3 cm in diameter (39% vs. 69%). Other investigators have also identified a strong association between ECS and clinical N classification . Although, higher rates of ECS were also observed for nodes > 30 mm in our study (39.5% vs. 60.4%) the relationship between pathological node size and ECS did not reach significance ( P = 0.07).…”

Patterns of Spread in Recurrent Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

“…This article gives the first report at our institution of patterns of spread in recurrent head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and compares these patterns within subgroups of patients based on the extent of neck disease at the time of primary surgical resection. For comparison, our overall rates of local-regional (18.8%) as well as distant (17.2%) recurrences are similar to other reports in the literature for local-regional (20% to 27%) 3,10,11 and distant (11.4% to 14.8%) 3,8,10 sites.…”