Approaches to regional lymph node metastasis in patients with head and neck mucosal melanoma.
Moran AmitSamantha H TamAhmed S AbdelmeguidDianna B RobertsShaan M RazaShirley Y SuMichael E KupfermanFranco DeMonteEhab Y HannaPublished in: Cancer (2017)
The results of the current study demonstrated that lymph node status in patients with SNMM was not a significant predictor of outcome. This finding, together with the low incidence of lymph node metastases in patients with SNMM, suggests that elective treatment of the neck should be highly selective in this patient population. Cancer 2018;124:514-20. © 2017 American Cancer Society.