Incidence and predictive factors for positive non-sentinel lymph nodes in completion neck dissection following a positive sentinel node biopsy in early oral cancer

Searan Karamchandani; Axel Sahovaler; Elizabeth Crosbie-Jones; Mark McGurk; Selvam Thavaraj; Mustansir Alibhai; Simon Wan; Martin D Forster; Isabel Sassoon; Clare Schilling

doi:10.1016/j.oraloncology.2024.107081

Incidence and predictive factors for positive non-sentinel lymph nodes in completion neck dissection following a positive sentinel node biopsy in early oral cancer

Oral Oncol. 2024 Dec:159:107081. doi: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2024.107081. Epub 2024 Oct 18.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Head & Neck Academic Centre, Division of Surgery & Interventional Science, University College Hospital London, Charles Bell House, 43045 Foley St, London, W1W 7TS, United Kingdom.
² Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial Science, King's College London, 4(th) Floor Tower Wing, Guy's Hospital, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9RT, United Kingdom.
³ Head and Neck Surgical Department, Guy's & St Thomas Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, 20 St Thomas Street, London, SE1 9RS, United Kingdom.
⁴ Institute of Nuclear Medicine, UCL/UCLH, 235 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BU, United Kingdom.
⁵ UCL Cancer Institute/University College London Hospitals NHS Trust, 72 Huntley Street, WC1 6DD, United Kingdom.
⁶ Department of Computer Science, Brunel University London, Kingstone Ln, London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom.
⁷ Head & Neck Academic Centre, Division of Surgery & Interventional Science, University College Hospital London, Charles Bell House, 43045 Foley St, London, W1W 7TS, United Kingdom. Electronic address: clare.schilling@nhs.net.

PMID: 39426362
DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2024.107081

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Keywords: Cervical Lymph Node Metastasis; Head & Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma; Lymph Node Ratio; Non-Sentinel Lymph Nodes; Predictive Factors; Sentinel Node Biopsy; Tumour Depth.