CHICAGO — The use of acupuncture after neck dissection in patients with head and neck cancer reduced the effects of pain, dysfunction and xerostomia compared with the usual care, according to data ...

Recently, a large randomized trial found a survival advantage among patients who received elective neck dissection in conjunction with primary surgery for clinically node-negative oral cavity cancer ...

The role of imaging in the surveillance of patients with node-positive advanced-stage head and neck cancer is unclear, and whether patients should undergo a planned neck dissection following primary ...

The radioactive tracer technetium 99m Tc-tilmanocept (Lymphoseek, Navidea Biopharmaceuticals) is poised to become a viable alternative to elective neck dissection, the current gold standard for ...

A new study has said that metastasis of tumors to level IIb lymph nodes is rare in patients with laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC). Therefore this area can be ignored during selective neck ...

Whether patients with early-stage oral cancers should be treated with elective neck dissection at the time of the primary surgery or with therapeutic neck dissection after nodal relapse has been a ...

June 3, 2008 (Chicago, Illinois) — Acupuncture could be a viable option for reducing pain and dysfunction after neck dissection in head and neck cancer patients, new data suggest. The results of a ...

A neck dissection is surgery to remove all or some of the lymph nodes and surrounding tissue from the neck. Lymph nodes are small, round or bean-shaped glands. They remove germs from your body, help ...

The first robot-assisted radical neck dissection in the United States using the bilateral axillo-breast approach (BABA) has been performed successfully by a team of surgeons at Mount Sinai Beth Israel ...

Neck manipulation, sometimes called “neck cracking,” is generally considered safe when performed by a trained and licensed professional to treat neck pain. A vertebral artery dissection, which is a ...