Staging of Cervical Lymph Nodes in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Adding Ultrasound in Clinically Lymph Node Negative Patients May Improve Diagnostic Work-Up

Abstract

The addition of US to the clinical work-up of patients with cN0 OSCC increases the detection of metastases, thus US potentially reduces the number of patients requiring a secondary neck surgery after sentinel node biopsy.