 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.
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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 | 1 | 3 | | 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2024 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Neck Dissection" by people in Profiles.
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Rooney CM, Huang SH, Su J, Bratman S, Cho J, de Almeida J, Glogauer M, Goldstein D, Hahn E, Hosni A, Hope A, Irish J, Kim J, O'Sullivan B, Ringash J, Spreafico A, Tsai J, Waldron J, Yao C, Watson E, McPartlin A. Impact of Postoperative Neck Radiotherapy Volumes on Long-Term Unstimulated Saliva Flow Following Primary Surgery and Ipsilateral Neck Dissection for Oral Cavity Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Head Neck. 2025 Mar; 47(3):847-855.
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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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Siu J, Griffiths R, Noel CW, Austin PC, Pasternak J, Urbach D, Monteiro E, Goldstein DP, Irish JC, Sawka AM, Eskander A. Surgical Case Volume has an Impact on Outcomes for Patients with Lateral Neck Disease in Thyroid Cancer. Ann Surg Oncol. 2022 Feb; 29(2):1141-1150.
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Last AS, Pipkorn P, Chen S, Kallogjeri D, Zenga J, Rich JT, Paniello R, Zevallos J, Chernock R, Adkins D, Oppelt P, Gay H, Daly M, Thorstad W, Jackson RS. Risk and Rate of Occult Contralateral Nodal Disease in Surgically Treated Patients With Human Papillomavirus-Related Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Base of the Tongue. JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2020 01 01; 146(1):50-56.
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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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Xu JJ, Yu E, McMullen C, Pasternak J, Brierley J, Tsang R, Zhang H, Eskander A, Rotstein L, Sawka AM, Gilbert R, Irish J, Gullane P, Brown D, de Almeida JR, Goldstein DP. Patterns of regional recurrence in papillary thyroid cancer patients with lateral neck metastases undergoing neck dissection. J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2017 May 31; 46(1):43.
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Duque CS, Dueñas JP, Marulanda M, Pérez D, Londono A, Roy S, Khadem MA. Phrenic nerve stimulation during neck dissection for advanced thyroid cancer involving level IV: is it worth doing it? Updates Surg. 2017 Mar; 69(1):83-87.
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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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Givi B, Eskander A, Awad MI, Kong Q, Montero PH, Palmer FL, Xu W, De Almeida JR, Lee N, O'Sullivan B, Irish JC, Gilbert R, Ganly I, Patel SG, Goldstein DP, Morris LG. Impact of elective neck dissection on the outcome of oral squamous cell carcinomas arising in the maxillary alveolus and hard palate. Head Neck. 2016 04; 38 Suppl 1:E1688-94.
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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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