Impact of retropharyngeal lymph node dissection in the surgical treatment of hypopharyngeal cancer.
Masanori TeshimaNaoki OtsukiHirotaka ShinomiyaNaruhiko MoritaTatsuya FurukawaKoichi MorimotoTetsu NakamuraKazunobu HashikawaNaomi KiyotaRyohei SasakiKen-Ichi NibuPublished in: Head & neck (2019)
In the present study, patients with RPLN metastasis showed equally favorable oncological outcome compared with patients without RPLN metastasis. At least, ipsilateral RPLN dissection should be considered in the surgical treatment of advanced hypopharyngeal cancer and multiple neck lymph node metastasis regardless of primary subsite.