Management of the Contralateral Neck in Unilateral Node-Positive Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

Christian Doll Friedrich MroskLea FreundFelix NeumannKilian Kreutzer Jan Oliver VossJan-Dirk RaguseMarcus Beck Dirk Boehmer Kerstin Rubarth Max Heiland Steffen Koerdt

Published in: Cancers (2023)

Overall, the risk for occult contralateral CLNM in patients with lateralized OSCC ipsilateral CLNM is low. Our data suggest that END should not be performed routinely in this cohort. Risk-adapted radiotherapy of the contralateral neck alone seems to be sufficient from the oncological point of view.

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