 Neck Dissection
"Neck Dissection" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Dissection in the neck to remove all disease tissues including cervical LYMPH NODES and to leave an adequate margin of normal tissue. This type of surgery is usually used in tumors or cervical metastases in the head and neck. The prototype of neck dissection is the radical neck dissection described by Crile in 1906.
| Descriptor ID |
D037981
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E04.446.318 E04.580.411
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| Concept/Terms |
Neck Dissection- Neck Dissection
- Dissection, Neck
- Dissections, Neck
- Neck Dissections
Radical Neck Dissection- Radical Neck Dissection
- Dissection, Radical Neck
- Dissections, Radical Neck
- Neck Dissection, Radical
- Neck Dissections, Radical
- Radical Neck Dissections
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| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Neck Dissection" by people in Profiles.
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Barrio MJ, Pozdeyev N, McIntyre RC, Albuja-Cruz MB, Haugen BR, Raeburn CD. Long term outcomes after repeat lymph node dissections for persistent or recurrent differentiated thyroid cancer. Am J Surg. 2025 Jan; 239:116045.
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Hughes DT, Rosen JE, Evans DB, Grubbs E, Wang TS, Sol?rzano CC. Prophylactic Central Compartment Neck Dissection in Papillary Thyroid Cancer and Effect on Locoregional Recurrence. Ann Surg Oncol. 2018 Sep; 25(9):2526-2534.
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Fink DS, Sibley H, Kunduk M, Schexnaildre M, Sutton C, Kakade-Pawar A, McWhorter AJ. Functional Outcomes after Salvage Transoral Laser Microsurgery for Laryngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2016 10; 155(4):606-11.
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Dan TD, Raben D, Schneider CJ, Hockstein NG, Witt RL, Dzeda M, Cormier JF, Raben A. Freedom from local and regional failure of contralateral neck with ipsilateral neck radiotherapy for node-positive tonsil cancer: updated results of an institutional clinical management approach. Oral Oncol. 2015 Jun; 51(6):616-21.
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Faden DL, Orloff LA, Ayeni T, Fink DS, Yung K. Stimulation threshold greatly affects the predictive value of intraoperative nerve monitoring. Laryngoscope. 2015 May; 125(5):1265-70.
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Goldstein DP, Ringash J, Irish JC, Gilbert R, Gullane P, Brown D, Xu W, Del Bel R, Chepeha D, Davis AM. Assessment of the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand (DASH) questionnaire for use in patients after neck dissection for head and neck cancer. Head Neck. 2015 Feb; 37(2):234-42.
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Lin Y, Ross HL, Raeburn CD, DeWitt PE, Albuja-Cruz M, Jones EL, McIntyre RC. Vitamin D deficiency does not increase the rate of postoperative hypocalcemia after thyroidectomy. Am J Surg. 2012 Dec; 204(6):888-93; discussion 893-4.
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Caicedo-Granados E, Beswick DM, Christopoulos A, Cunningham DE, Razfar A, Ohr JP, Heron DE, Ferris RL. Oncologic and functional outcomes of partial laryngeal surgery for intermediate-stage laryngeal cancer. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2013 Feb; 148(2):235-42.
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Man LX, Beswick DM, Johnson JT. Antibiotic prophylaxis in uncontaminated neck dissection. Laryngoscope. 2011 Jul; 121(7):1473-7.
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Shrime MG, Gullane PJ, Dawson L, Kim J, Gilbert RW, Irish JC, Brown DH, Goldstein DP. The impact of adjuvant radiotherapy on survival in T1-2N1 squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2010 Mar; 136(3):225-8.
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