Metastatic neck adenopathies without known primary tumor. Incidence study 1996-2001
Muñoz del Castillo, F.; Jurado Ramos, A.; Navarro Ortíz, F.; López Villarejo, P.
Anales Otorrinolaringologicos Ibero-Americanos 30(5): 489-500
2003
ISSN/ISBN: 0303-8874 PMID: 14648929 Document Number: 565789
We made a retrospective descriptive study reviewing 92 patients with cervical lymph node metastases from unknown primary tumour. The study was accomplished during 6 years. (January 1996 to December 2001) in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology of the Hospital Reina Sofia, Córdoba. The median age was 61.7 years old, male 96.7% and heavy smoker (89.1%) and drinkers most of them. According to TNM categories, 72.2% patients were in phase N2a and half of them were localized Level II. Squamous cell carcinoma was the predominant histologic type. The patients were treated with surgery in 70.6% of the cases with or without radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy.