Patterns of cervical metastasis from carcinoma of the oral tongue

Table 1 Surgical management of neck by pathological node status.

	pN₀	pN₁	pN_2a	pN_2b	pN_2c	pN₃	Total	Percentage
Level I Clearance*	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1.3
SOHND	15	4	0	3	0	0	22	29.3
MND	21	7	1	8	0	1	38	50.6
RND	0	1	1	4	0	0	6	8
B/L SOHND	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1.3
I/L MND C/L SOHND	2	0	0	1	0	0	3	4
B/L MND	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	2.6
I/L MND C/L SOHND	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1.3

SOHND – Supra omohyoid neck dissection; MND – Modified neck dissection; RND – Radical neck dissection; B/L – Bilateral; I/L – Ipsilateral; C/L-Contralateral. * patient had a cardiac arrest during surgery and the procedure was abandoned, this patient went on to develop neck node recurrence and was successfully salvaged by second surgery.

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