Regional Neck Metastization of Head and Neck Skin Cancer
Abstract
Skin cancer is the most frequent cancer, with higher incidence in head and neck, due to chronic sun exposure. The risk of neck metastasis depends on their histology and staging. Melanoma and Merkel carcinoma with N0 neck stage, have a probability of locorregional micrometastases around 20% and from 20-50% respectively. Squamous cell carcinoma has a risk from 5 up to 20%. However, there are several factors, including staging model limitations, that turn assessment of squamous cell carcinoma metastasis cumbersome. The use of sentinel lymph node biopsy and follow-up protocols are also debatable.
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