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Korean Journal of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery > Volume 31(4); 1988 > Article
Korean Journal of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery 1988;31(4): 628-34.
Clinical Study on the Neck Dissection
Jun Hee Lee, MD, Jong Ouck Choi, MD, and Hong Kyun Yoo, MD
Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, College of Medicine, Korea University, Korea
경부곽청술에 대한 임상적 고찰
이준희 · 최종욱 · 유홍균
고려대학교 의과대학 이비인후과학교실
ABSTRACT

Neck dissection means the complete removal of lymphatic package of the neck. It has been performed as a primary purpose of management for the neck node metastasis from head and neck cancer. Since recent 4 years, authors have performed neck dissection in the 64 patients(70 sides) and analyzed the clinical finding and follow-up results. The results were following ; 1) Number of dissection was ; Unilateral-58 patients, Bilateral-6 patients, Method of neck dissection was ; RND-18 cases, MND-33 cases, FND-19 cases. 2) The most common cause of neck dissection was the laryngeal cancer as 30 cases(46.8%) and histopathologically, squamous cell carcinoma was the most common as 48 cases(75.0%) among the 59 cases of malignancy. 3) The nodal stage of neck node metastasis was ; N0-17 cases(26.2%), N1-24 cases(36.9%), N2-11 cases(16.9%), N3-10 cases(15.4%). 4) As for the postoperative complication, nodal metastasis was the most common as 18 cases(27.7%). 5) The nodal recurrence rate after neck dissection was 27.7% and in cases of over 1 year follow-up(42 cases) 1 year NED rate was 44%.

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