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PAIN AND WEIGHT LOSS
INVOLVEMENT OF
LEVEL II
FOLLOWED BY
LEVEL III
BILATERAL INVOLVEMENT IN LESS THAN 10%
N CLASSIFICATION IN MAJORITY OF CASES:
N2
(A,B OR C)
MEDIAN NODE SIZE IS RANGING FROM 3.5 TO 5 CM
DESPITE AN ADEQUATE DIAGNOSTIC WORK-UP,
THE
PRIMARY TUMOR CANNOT BE DETECTED IN
APPROXIMATELY 2-3% OF PATIENTS
Nguyen C et al., Head Neck 1994
Grau C et al., Radiother Oncol 2000
Aslani M et al., Head Neck 2007
Waltonen JD et al., Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2009
Chen AM et al., In J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2010
PRESENTATION OF DISEASE
MASS IN THE NECK
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